WAKE UP with BWW 5/7/2015 - Let There Be Light! AN ACT OF GOD Begins on Broadway and More!
By: Jessica Showers May. 07, 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: Let there be light! AN ACT OF GOD begins on Broadway and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- AN ACT OF GOD, starring Jim Parsons, begins previews on Broadway tonight!
- Tony winner Christopher Gattelli directs and choregraphs readings of IN TRANSIT this week.
- Goodspeed's new musical THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY begins performances...
- And the company of Paper Mill's EVER AFTER meets the press, so stay tuned for photos!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- THE KING AND I's Broadway run is now open-ended, with a national tour set for 2016!
- Alexandra Silber & Anthony Andrews will lead The Muny's MY FAIR LADY.
- The Off Broadway Alliance Award nominations were announced...
- We got a first look (right) at THE WAY WE GET BY at Second Stage, Brandy onstage in CHICAGO and shots and highlights from Encores! ZORBA!
- HEDWIG's Darren Criss will host STARS IN THE ALLEY later this month, plus Justin Guarini & Deborah Cox are co-hosting the 2015 Tony Awards simulcast in Times Square.
- Derrick Baskin, Nicholas Christopher and more have signed on for WHORL INSIDE A LOOP at Second Stage...
- Tituss Burgess and Peter Gallagher are among this year's Critics Choice TV Award nominees.
- And we got a peek at this year's August Wilson Monologue Competition, plus FOLLIES in concert in London!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 78 degrees and sunny today!
Quote of the Day: A word from the big man himself, AN ACT OF GOD's Jim Parsons...
"Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home."
-- Jim Parsons (via BrainyQuote)
Video of the Day: Watch Meryl Streep rock out in a new trailer for her upcoming film RICKI AND THE FLASH!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Nicholas Hytner, who turns 59 today!
Hytner, former head of the National Theatre and the Royal National Theatre, has directed One Man, Two Guvnors, The History Boys and Carousel on Broadway, all of which earned him Tony Awards for Best Director. Among his other Broadway helming credits are War Horse (which won the Tony for Best Play in 2011), Jumpers, Sweet Smell of Success, Twelfth Night, and Miss Saigon. He also produced Fela! Hytner helmed countless productions for the National during his tenure; in addition, among his West End credits -- aside from his many Broadway transfers -- are Measure for Measure, King Lear and The Importance of Being Earnest. Hytner has also worked extensively in opera, and his film The Madness of King George won BAFTA and Evening Standard awards. He is currently directing the movie adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, which he originally helmed at the Queen's Theatre in 1999.
Photo by Walter McBride
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!