WAKE UP with BWW 3/23/2015 - SOMETHING ROTTEN!, SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS, Larry Kramer and More!
By: Jessica Showers Mar. 23, 2015
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: SMASH alumni star in SOMETHING ROTTEN!, beginning tonight, SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS opens at Ars Nova and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- SOMETHING ROTTEN! begins previews on Broadway tonight!
- SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS opens off-Broadway tonight.
- Gay Men's Health Crisis honors THE NORMAL HEART's Larry Kramer this evening...
- American Theatre Wing celebrates this year's Jonathan Larson Grant recipients.
- And the company of FUN HOME meets the press, so stay tuned for photos!
NEWS YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- Christine Ebersole, Tony Sheldon, James Snyder, Margo Seibert and more will star in EVER AFTER at Paper Mill!
- It's official! BEAUTIFUL is headed to the big screen!
- We got a first look (right) at Kelli O'Hara & Ken Watanabe in costume for THE KING AND I!
- THE NORMAL HEART is among this year's GLAAD Media Award winners.
- Betty Buckley will play 'Carlotta' in FOLLIES in concert at the Royal Albert Hall...
- Raul Esparza & Katie Finneran will announce the 2015 Outer Critics Circle nominations!
- The MOTOWN National Tour has recouped its investment...
- Cleveland Play House, America's first regional theater, has set its centennial season.
- And in case you missed ABC's SOUND OF MUSIC special, you can watch it in full here!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Sunny with a high of 41 degrees!
Quote of the Day: A word from playwright Larry Kramer...
"I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools."
-- Larry Kramer (via BrainyQuote)
What we're looking forward to listening to: The new cast recording -- out this June -- for Broadway's GIGI!
Photo by Margot Schulman
Video of the Day: The GLEE series finale aired on Friday. Watch all of the performances, and check out a clip of Lea Michele performing the song Darren Criss wrote -- "This TIme" -- below!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Melissa Errico, who turns 45 today!
Errico last appeared on Broadway in Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Before that, she starred onstage in Dracula, Amour (for which she received a Tony nomination in 2003), High Society, My Fair Lady and Anna Karenina. Among her off-Broadway credits are Passion, Finian's Rainbow, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Major Barbara, The Importance of Being Earnest, One Touch of Venus, Call Me Madam and more. Errico has taken the stage in Sunday In The Park With George at the Kennedy Center and in My Fair Lady, Camelot and The Sound of Music at The Hollywood Bowl. She also played 'Annie Savoy' in the World Premiere of Bull Durham at Atlanta's Alliance Theater.
MORE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH earlier this winter.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!