WAKE UP with BWW 7/15/14 - Jenkins Back in NEWSIES, LADY DAY & HEDWIG on the Shelves, Menzel Goes MLB and More!

• Original 'Medda' Capatha Jenkins returns to close out NEWSIES' run on Broadway!
• Everett Quinton's DROP DEAD PERFECT begins off-Broadway.
• Megan Hilty, Stephanie J. Block and more take part in the IT COULD BE WORSE Season 2 launch concert at 54 Below.
• Take a Tony-winner out to the ball game! IF/THEN's Idina Menzel will sing the National Anthem at tonight's MLB All-Star Game...
• And Stephen Berger, Larry Cahn, Dee Roscioli, Donna Vivino and more star in THE GIG, beginning today at NYMF!

NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

• Broadway's HOLLER IF YA HEAR ME announced it will shutter this coming Sunday...
• We got a first look at highlights from MISS SAIGON in the West End, plus we got to meet BILLY ELLIOT's new star Ollie Jochim!
• Kerry Ellis is returning to WICKED in London, with Willemijn Verkaik playing her final performance this weekend...
• And speaking of WICKED, Chandra Lee Schwartz and Etai BenShlomo will be joining the show's US tour later this month as 'Glinda' and 'Boq'.
• Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's AMERICAN PSYCHO musical will be making its U.S. Premiere at Second Stage this winter!
• In the off-Broadway world, 50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL PARODY announced new cast members for next week, and DRUNK SHAKESPEARE has extended through mid-October.
• Patti LuPone will be starring in LA Opera's THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES next February...
• Betty Buckley is collaborating with T Bone Burnett on her new album GHOSTLIGHT, out this fall!
• And finally, coming up this Thursday, check out the casts of LES MIS, PIPPIN and more at BROADWAY IN BRYANT PARK!

Broadway Weather Forecast: Feels like deja vu! Thunderstorms with a high of 84 today. But hang in there -- looks like the clouds will be clearing up later this week.

Quote of the Day: In light of yesterday's wonderful news that AMERICAN PSYCHO will be traveling across the pond, hear what creator Duncan Sheik has to say about darkness in art...

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
-- Duncan Sheik (via BrainyQuote)

What we're listening to: The LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR AND GRILL Original Broadway Cast Recording, out today! Not only do we get to travel back in time to Billie Holiday's hey-day, we also get to live it through another stand-out entertainer -- six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald.

And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Scott Foley, who turns 43 today!

Well known for his roles as 'Sean Kelly' in the long-running medical dramedy series Scrubs (please make a musical, please!), 'Henry Burton' in Grey's Anatomy, 'Patrick Devins' in True Blood and 'Jake Ballard' on Scandal, Foley starred on Broadway in 2003's The Violet Hour.