WAKE UP with BWW 11/19/14 - ALLEGRO, THE UNDERCLASSMAN, Mientus in LES MIZ and More!

- ROCK OF AGES will close on Broadway this winter.
- Donna Murphy is leading a reading of SUNSET BOULEVARD this week; please say this means a Broadway revival!
- We got a first look (right) at John Lithgow and Glenn Close in A DELICATE BALANCE!
- We learned that PETER PAN LIVE! will feature three newly adapted songs and expanded lyrics...
- Stephen Sondheim, Billy Joel and more have received the ASCAP Centennial Award!
- PUNK ROCK has extended its off-Broadway run by a week.
- Norwegian Epic Cruise Line will feature 'PRISCILLA' and BURN THE FLOOR next year!
- And over the in UK, the COPACABANA tour has been pulled from its 2014 venues due to financial problems.

Broadway Weather Forecast: Sunny all day with clouds in the evening. High of 32 degrees (brrr!).

Quote of the Day: A word from ALLEGRO's Malcolm Gets...

"Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked."
-- Malcolm Gets (via BrainyQuote)

Video of the Day: Idina Menzel belting out "Always Starting Over" from IF/THEN!

And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Laura Osnes, who turns 29 today!

Osnes last starred on Broadway in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, for which she received a Tony nomination and won a Drama Desk Award last year. Before that, she appeared in Bonnie and Clyde, Anything Goes, South Pacific and Grease. She also recently starred off-Broadway in The Threepenny Opera.