WAKE UP with BWW 4/14/2015 - IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU, HEDWIG's New 'Yitzhak' and More!
By: Jessica Showers Apr. 14, 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: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU opens on Broadway and HEDWIG gets a new 'Yitzhak'!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU opens on Broadway tonight - be sure to check back later for our Review Roundup!
- Rebecca Naomi Jones joins HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH as 'Yitzhak' tonight.
- And Ford's marks the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's assassination with around-the-clock events today and tomorrow...
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Ana Villafane & Josh Segarra are set to star in ON YOUR FEET!
- Earl Carpenter will join Broadway's LES MIZ next month.
- KING CHARLES III is coming to Broadway this fall!
- GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE has announced its tour dates!
- We got a first look (right) at SOMETHING ROTTEN, as well as Staunton & company in the West End's GYPSY!
- Plus highlights from LIVING ON LOVE, a first glance at Darren Criss in makeup for HEDIWG, and a peek at Brandy in costume for CHICAGO!
- RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL is returning to NYC.
- Disney's live-action BEAUTY AND THE BEAST has found its 'Plumette'...
- And the BOMBSHELL concert is sold out!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Rain this morning, cloudy this afternoon. High of 66 degrees!
Quote of the Day: A word from IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU director David Hyde Pierce...
"I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it."
-- David Hyde Pierce (via BrainyQuote)
What we're watching: Six Sondheim classics -- including INTO THE WOODS -- from the new STEPHEN SONDHEIM COLLECTION DVD box set, out today!
What we're listening to: BEAUTIFUL star Chilina Kennedy's new folk-pop album, WHAT YOU FIND IN A BOTTLE, available today!
Video of the Day: Watch Kevin Spacey and Beverley Knight sing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' at the 2015 Olivier Awards!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Abigail Breslin, who turns 19 today!
Breslin made her Broadway debut as 'Helen Keller' in The Miracle Worker in 2010. Before that, she launched her film career at the age of 5, appearing in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs. Among her other movie credits are Little Miss Sunshine -- for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2006 -- No Reservations, Nim's Island, Definitely, Maybe, My Sister's Keeper, Zombieland, Rango, the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Ender's Game and more. Breslin will soon be seen in Ryan Murphy's new TV series Scream Queens, opposite Emma Roberts, Lea Michele and more.
Photo by Walter McBride
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!