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: THAT PHYSICS SHOW, featuring David Maiullo, opens tonight off-Broadway, and PIPPIN heads to Amsterdam!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- NERDS has postponed its Broadway run; read the cast's reaction.
- James Monroe Iglehart, Eden Espinosa, Jeremy Jordan and more are set for Disney Channel's TANGLED: BEFORE EVER AFTER!
- LOVE NEVER DIES could be headed to D.C. next year...
- We got a first look (right) at Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams in BLACKBIRD!
- Broadway's FIDDLER ON THE ROOF will celebrate its Cast Album at Barnes & Noble this month.
- The HAMILTON national tour will stop in Houston next season!
- John Leguizamo's 'LATIN HISTORY FOR DUMMIES' has joined The Public's 2016-17 season.
- Lena Hall and Michael C. Hall are bringing the sounds of Radiohead to Café Carlyle...
- And TV personality Marc Summers is set to star in a play by SCHOOL OF ROCK's Alex Brightman!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 73 degrees and partly cloudy today. It's getting warmer and warmer!
What we're watching: A "bottle dance" lesson from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF's Dance Captain Marla Phelen!
Video of the Day: In honor of LOVE NEVER DIES finally making headway in coming to North America, watch Ramin Karimloo perform "Til' I Hear You Sing"!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Lonny Price, who turns 57 today!
Prolific stage artist and Tony nominee Lonny Price last directed Broadway's LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL, starring Audra McDonald. The show is soon headed to London and will air on HBO. Among his other directorial credits are 110 IN THE SHADE, MASTER HAROLD...AND THE BOYS, URBAN COWBOY, A CLASS ACT (for which he penned the book; the show earned him a Tony nod in 2001), and SALLY MARR...AND HER ESCORTS (which he also wrote), as well as SUNSET BOULEVARD in the West End, many off-Broadway productions, the New York Philharmonic's CAMELOT in 2008, and an acclaimed concert production of COMPANY in 2011. As an actor, he has tread the boards in Broadway's BURN THIS, BROADWAY, RAGS, MASTER HAROLD...AND THE BOYS, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG -- in which he originated the role of 'Charley Kringas' -- and THE SURVIVOR, and off-Broadway's FALSETTOLAND, ROOM SERVICE, ROMMEL'S GARDEN, UP FROM PARADISE and CLASS ENEMY.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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