WAKE UP with BWW 12/7/2015 - LAZARUS, THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER and More!

- SCHOOL OF ROCK - THE MUSICAL released its full licensing details for youth productions!
- We got a first look (right) at Jackie Hoffman in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, plus shots from THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY tour!
- If you missed last week's THE WIZ LIVE!, NBC is airing it again on December 19.
- Victoria Clark, Betsy Wolfe and more have signed on for the RAISE THE ROOF benefit.
- Spymonkey's THE COMPLETE DEATHS, set to tour the UK next year, centers on Shakespearean demises...
- Speaking of the Bard, Kathleen Turner plans to star in her own stage play based on KING LEAR.
- And BEACHES playwright Thom Thomas has passed away at 80...

Broadway Weather Forecast: A great start to the week - high of 56 and sunny!

What we're looking forward to watching: NBC's THE WIZ LIVE!, coming to DVD later this month!

Video of the Day: Watch Wayne Brady's free-style rap during a recent curtain call at KINKY BOOTS!

And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Ellen Burstyn, who turns 83 today!

Burstyn last appeared on Broadway in PICNIC in 2013. Before that, she starred in OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL, SACRILEGE, SHIMADA, SHIRLEY VALENTINE, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD and SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR (which won her a Tony and a Drama Desk in 1975, and earned her a Golden Globe for the film adaptation three years later). She has also taken the West End stage in THE CHILDREN'S HOUR and played off-Broadway in THE LITTLE FLOWER OF EAST ORANGE. Burstyn received her first Oscar nomination for 1971's THE LAST PICTURE SHOW and another in 1973 for THE EXORCIST. She won the following year for Martin Scorsese's ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. Among her other lauded films are RESURRECTION and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2013.