WAKE UP with BWW 5/5/2015 - Wilson in FISH IN THE DARK, Theatre World Winners, THE AUDIENCE Back in the UK and More!

By: Jessica Showers May. 05, 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: FISH IN THE DARK welcomes back a star, we find out this year's Theatre World Award winners, and THE AUDIENCE returns to the West End!

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:

- Rita Wilson dives back into Broadway's FISH IN THE DARK this evening!
- The winners of the 2015 Theatre World Awards will be announced today.
- The stars of SOMETHING ROTTEN! appear at today's SAG Foundation Career Conversations event!
- The Pulitzer-winning play THE FLICK returns off-Broadway tonight, TOAST opens at The Public, and Jesse Eisenberg's world premiere THE SPOILS starts performances...
- And Kristin Scott Thomas leads THE AUDIENCE, re-opening tonight in the West End!

Nielsen & McCormick in WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER!

NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

- HAMILTON and BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY won the 2015 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards!
- Fairchild, Cope, Yazbeck and Moore are among this year's Astaire Award nominees...
- DOCTOR ZHIVAGO will shutter on Broadway this weekend.
- New works by Duncan Sheik, Stephen Trask and more are set for Vassar's 2015 Powerhouse Season!
- Kline, Parker and Groff will perform at Lapham's Quarterly's DECADES BALL next month.
- Rachel Bay Jones & Laura Dreyfuss have joined the new Pasek & Paul musical at Arena Stage...
- We got a first look (right) at Kristine Nielsen and more in WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER at Signature.
- And AN ACT OF GOD star Jim Parsons says he turned down hosting the 2015 Tony Awards!

Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 81 degrees and partly cloudy today.

Quote of the Day: A word from FISH IN THE DARK's Rita Wilson...

"Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy."
-- Rita Wilson (via BrainyQuote)

What we're watching: THE LAST FIVE YEARS, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, out on DVD and Blu-ray today!

Audio of the Day: Listen to Kiesza's cover of "Stronger" from the FINDING NEVERLAND concept album!

And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Roger Rees, who turns 71 today!

Rees, currently starring in The Visit opposite Chita Rivera, has also appeared on Broadway in The Winslow Boy, The Addams Family, Uncle Vanya, The Rehearsal, Indiscretions, The Red Shoes, London Assurance and more. He was nominated for Best Direction of a Play for Peter and the Starcatcher in 2012 and won the Tony for Best Actor in 1982 for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby. Among his off-Broadway credits are Trumbo: Red White and Blacklisted, A Man of No Importance, The Uneasy Chair and The End of the Day. Rees also directed off-Broadway's Treemonisha, Here Lies Jenny (for which he wrote the book), Arms and the Man, and Mud, River, Stone.

Chita Rivera and Roger Rees in THE VISIT.
Photo by Joan Marcus

See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!

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