WAKE UP with BWW 1/8/2015 - DYING FOR IT, HAM, Courtney Love and More!

By: Jan. 08, 2015
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Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: DYING FOR IT, 'HAM' and KANSAS CITY CHOIR BOY begin tonight in New York City!

TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:

- DYING FOR IT opens tonight at the Atlantic, and Wakka Wakka brings 'BABY UNIVERSE' off-Broadway!
- The Billy Porter-helmed HAM: A MUSICAL MEMOIR begins previews this evening...
- The new opera KANSAS CITY CHOIR BOY, starring Courtney Love, opens tonight in NYC!
- And Alice Ripley and Aaron Lazar lead a private reading of THE WONDERFUL MR. AND MRS. O'LEARY.

The new cast of IT'S ONLY A PLAY!

NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

- Sienna Miller will take over for Emma Stone as 'Sally Bowles' in CABARET next month!
- The Broadway-bound FIRST WIVES CLUB has cast its husbands!
- Billy Porter is taking a hiatus from KINKY BOOTS, but will return this spring for a run through 2016...
- The new cast of IT'S ONLY A PLAY posed for a selfie (right)!
- Signature Theatre's BIG LOVE will star Rebecca Naomi Jones, Bobby Steggert and more.
- Barbara Cook, Billy Porter, Bernadette Peters and more will headline in P-Town this year!
- THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE could be landing on the stage...
- And Bradley Cooper has confirmed THE ELEPHANT MAN's West End venue and dates, plus MISS SAIGON is extending through this fall in London!

Broadway Weather Forecast: Sunny with a high of 23 degrees. Keep piling on those layers and stay warm!

Quote of the Day: A word from new opera star Courtney Love...

"I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand."
-- Courtney Love (via BrainyQuote)

What we're watching/listening to: Morgan James' new cover of Hozier's 'Take Me To Church' with Postmodern Jukebox. watch!

And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Harriet Harris, who turns 60 today!

Harris just starred in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway and will return to the stage this spring in It Shoulda Been You. Her past stage credits include Encores! Little Me, Present Laughter, Cry-Baby, Old Acquaintance, Thoroughly Modern Millie -- for which she won 2002 Tony and Drama Desk awards for Featured Actress in a Musical -- The Man Who Came to Dinner and more. On screen, Harris has starred in Frasier and Desperate Housewives, as well as the films Momento, Nurse Betty, and, more recently, Love Is Strange.

Harriet Harris in this year's Encores! LITTLE ME
Photo by Joan Marcus

See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!


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