WAKE UP with BWW 12/29/2015 - Kennedy Center Honors and More!
By: Jessica Khan Dec. 29, 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: This year's Kennedy Center Honors, celebrating Carole King, Rita Moreno, Cicely Tyson and more, airs tonight on CBS!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE will return to Broadway this August!
- THE KING AND I will be the only Broadway show playing this New Year's Eve.
- Chita Rivera has postponed her Cafe Carlyle debut after a bad fall...
- The hunt has begun for kid stars for SCHOOL OF ROCK across the pond, and the Broadway edition just broke records at the Winter Garden Theatre!
- And we've collected the 2015 'Best Of' lists for theatre, plus Broadway's Jan/Feb openings to look forward to in 2016!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Rainy this morning and cloudy tonight with a high of 52 degrees.
Quote of the Day: A word from birthday girl Mary Tyler Moore, who turns 79 today...
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
-- Mary Tyler Moore (via BrainyQuote)
What we're looking forward to listening to: Lena Hall and The Deafening, who are working on a double album. Watch some footage of their recent concert at the Gramercy below!
Oh how I miss head banging! For those of you wondering we The Deafening are working on a double album!!! ;)
Posted by Lena Hall on Monday, December 28, 2015
What we're looking forward to watching: Sutton Foster in Season 2 of YOUNGER on TV Land!
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Get More: Younger Official TV Show Website
Video of the Day: Go behind-the-scenes of MTC's OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR with Linda Lavin!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Jennifer Ehle, who turns 46 today!
Ehle made her Broadway debut in THE REAL THING, for which she won a Tony in 2000. After that, she starred in DESIGN FOR LIVING and THE COAST OF UTOPIA; all three parts of the latter earned her a Tony Award in 2007. She has also appeared off-Broadway with John Lithgow in MR. & MRS. FITCH. She first appeared in the West End in TARTUFFE and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in the mid-90s. The actress later appeared at the Old Vic opposite Kevin Spacey in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY and in Shakespeare in the Park's MACBETH. She rose to fame as 'Elizabeth Bennet' in the 1995 BBC miniseries PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and has since starred on the big screen in WILDE, THE KING'S SPEECH, CONTAGION, ZERO DARK THIRTY, FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and more.
Photo by Justin Borucki
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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