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WAKE UP with BWW 10/14/14 - FOUND Opens, GYPSY at Chichester, SISTER ACT on Tour, Idina Answers Our HOLIDAY WISHES and More!
By: Jessica Showers Oct. 14, 2014
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: FOUND opens off-Broadway, Imelda Staunton takes on 'Rose' in GYPSY, SISTER ACT and ANYTHING GOES head out on tour, and Idina Menzel, Neil Patrick Harris and Terrence McNally take the spotlight in today's new music, books and movies!
Next up in our series of Broadway stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Noah Robbins (portrait by Walter McBride), who has appeared in BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and ARCADIA and is set to star in MCC Theater's PUNK ROCK later this month!
Photo by Walter McBride.
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Atlantic Theater's new musical FOUND opens tonight!
- GYPSY, starring Imelda Staunton as 'Mama Rose', opens this evening at Chichester.
- SISTER ACT (more here) and ANYTHING GOES kick off new national tours today!
- LIBERTY: A MONUMENTAL NEW MUSICAL with Abigail Shapiro (more here) and Suzan-Lori Parks' FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS begin tonight off-Broadway.
- Plus, York's TUNE IN TIME musical game show starts tonight.
- And Idina Menzel, Neil Patrick Harris and Terrence McNally "star" in today's new music, book and movie arrivals!
WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- THE LION KING will celebrate its 15th Anniversary in London this weekend!
- The new SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE musical is looking for West End and touring investors...
- Sting and THE LAST SHIP will be part of this year's CAROLS FOR A CURE album!
- Tim Rice was honored with the 2014 BMI Icon Award last night in London.
- Richard Maltby, Jr. has joined the cast of York Theatre Company's BIG.
- Scott Alan's GREATEST HITS - VOLUME ONE will be released next month!
- Bill Murray will sing classic carols in an upcoming TV Christmas special...
- And AMERICAN HORROR STORY has already been picked up for a 5th season!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Warmer and happier today with a high of 75 degrees and mostly sunny!
Quote of the Day: Author and actor extraordinaire Neil Patrick Harris on taking chances and expanding your horizons...
It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.
-- Neil Patrick Harris (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: Merry Halloween? Idina Menzel's HOLIDAY WISHES album is out today, and it's already getting us in the spirit!
What we're reading: Are you headed for misery, true love or rehab? Find out in Neil Patrick Harris's CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, on the shelves today!
What we're watching: A new documentary about Terrence McNally's play CORPUS CHRISTI -- his controversial, all-gay reworking of the story of Jesus Christ -- is out now on DVD and VOD!
And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Mackenzie Mauzy, who turns 26 today!
Mauzy launched her career as a soap star in The Bold and the Beautiful and Guiding Light before making her Broadway debut in A Tale of Two Cities in 2008. Mauzy also stepped in for Jennifer Damiano as 'Natalie Goodman' in Broadway's Next to Normal and had a featured role in Giant at the Public Theater in 2012. She will appear as 'Rapunzel' in the upcoming film adaptation of Into the Woods.
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See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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