Broadway AM Report, 6/29/2016 - EUGENIUS! in London and More!
By: Jessica Khan Jun. 29, 2016
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: Warwick Davis and more lead EUGENIUS! in London tonight, and Cirque du Soleil's PARAMOUR hits the recording studio!
Broadway composer and orchestrator David Yazbeck
(portrait by Walter McBride)!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Christy Altomare, Derek Klena, John Bolton & Caroline O'Connor will return for ANASTASIA on Broadway this spring!
- Tracie Thoms, Brandon Uranowitz, Betsy Wolfe and more have joined Broadway's FALSETTOS...
- The stars of WAITRESS, 'GREAT COMET' and more are set for BROADWAY IN BRYANT PARK this summer.
- David Henry Hwang will be the new Chair of the American Theatre Wing.
- Mary Beth Peil has signed on for Broadway's LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES...
- The 2016 Jimmy Award winners were announced - check out photos!
- We got a peek (right) inside rehearsal for Shakespeare in the Park's TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, plus a teaser for Eden Espinosa in Studio Tenn's EVITA!
- Paul Rudd will take part in a reading of LaBute's REASONS TO BE PRETTY HAPPY.
- And Actors' Equity is headed to court after no resolution could be reached over AEA's 99-seat proposition...
Broadway Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a Hump Day high of 86!
What we're looking forward to listening to: The HADESTOWN live cast album, recording at NYTW this week!
Photo by Joan Marcus
Video of the Day: Watch Alan Menken perform cut songs from LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Lily Rabe, who turns 34 today!
Rabe last starred onstage in last year's CYMBELINE at Shakespeare in the Park. Before that, she took part in The Public's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, as well as Broadway's SEMINAR, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (which earned her a Tony nod in 2011), THE AMERICAN PLAN, HEARTBREAK HOUSE and STEEL MAGNOLIAS. The actress has also appeared off-Broadway in CRIMES OF THE HEART and COLDER THAN HERE. Rabe has starred in multiple seasons of Ryan Murphy's anthology TV series AMERICAN HORROR STORY, as well as THE WHISPERS and THE GOOD WIFE.
Photo by Carol Rosegg
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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