WAKE UP with BWW 4/27/2015 - AMERICAN BUFFALO, Streisand & Redford and More!
By: Jessica Showers Apr. 27, 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: AMERICAN BUFFALO opens tonight in the West End, Barbra Streisand honors Robert Redford this evening and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- AMERICAN BUFFALO, starring Damian Lewis, John Goodman & Tom Sturridge, opens in the West End!
- Jessie Mueller will be honored by the Sarah Siddons Society with SO BEAUTIFUL! tonight.
- Rita Moreno interviews AN AMERICAN IN PARIS director/choreographer Christopher Wheeldon this evening...
- And Barbra Streisand presents the 2015 Chaplin Award to Robert Redford tonight.
NEWS YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- Cleveland Play House won this year's Regional Theatre Tony Award, and the final 2015 Tony eligibility rulings are in!
- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS will launch a national tour next fall.
- Off-Broadway's THE FANTASTICKS isn't closing after all!
- In addition to its concept album, FINDING NEVERLAND is getting an original cast recording, out this June.
- Samantha Barks just led an AMELIE workshop before the musical's Berkeley premiere...
- We got a first look (right) at Kristin Scott Thomas in London's THE AUDIENCE, plus a peek at TOAST at the Public!
- And BC/EFA has cancelled its 'SOLO STRIPS' event due to 42West's affiliation with Ted Cruz...
Broadway Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a high of 63 in the city today!
Quote of the Day: A word from AMERICAN BUFFALO star Damian Lewis...
"For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story."
-- Damian Lewis (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: The new West End GYPSY cast recording, featuring Imelda Staunton, out today!
Video of the Day: Watch the cast of AVENUE Q parody THE LION KING's "Circle of Life'" at the 2015 EASTER BONNET COMPETITION!
Easter Bonnet 2015 - Avenue Q PresentationWinning the best presentation award at #BwayBonnets was the company of Avenue Q, which lamented The Lion King - Musical's perennial status as the winner of the presentation award. In "Bonnet of Life," the Avenue Q cast delivered a side-splitting parody of the long-running Disney hit's signature number "Circle of Life," which left the audience roaring.
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And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Patrick Page, who turns 53 today!
Page, who just starred as 'Frollo' in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse, last appeared on Broadway in Casa Valentina. With a knack for playing villains, his other Broadway credits include A Time to Kill, Cyrano de Bergerac, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, A Man for All Seasons, Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Julius Caesar, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and The Kentucky Cycle.
Photo by Matthew Murphy
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!