WAKE UP with BWW 10/5/2015 - ON YOUR FEET!, GROSS INDECENCY, Karaoke and More!
By: Jessica Khan Oct. 05, 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: Get ON YOUR FEET! for Gloria Estefan's new musical, beginning on Broadway tonight!
Next up in our series of stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Judy Kaye (portrait by Walter McBride), who last starred on Broadway in CINDERELLA and before that in NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, SOUVENIR, SWEENEY TODD, MAMMA MIA!, RAGTIME, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, GREASE and more!
Photo by Walter McBride
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Gloria Estefan's ON YOUR FEET! starts previews on Broadway tonight!
- A slew of stars put on Tectonic Theater Project's reading of GROSS INDECENCY this evening...
- National Asian Artists Project hosts its PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE gala.
- Guarini, Cox, Brightman, Vincent and more will rock out at CELEBRITY KARAOKE tonight!
- And the company of Broadway's KING CHARLES III meets the press, so stay tuned for coverage!
NEWS YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- Jessie Mueller is set to reprise her role in WAITRESS, opening on Broadway this April!
- Kelsey Grammer will return to FINDING NEVERLAND next year, possibly alongside Chris Pine!
- President Obama is heading back to HAMILTON for a Democratic Party Fundraiser...
- We got a look (right) at Keira Knightley's first bows for THÉRÈSE RAQUIN.
- MCC Theater will honor Oscar winner Marisa Tomei at this year's MISCAST Gala!
- CINDERELLA's Santino Fontana married his castmate Jessica Hershberg!
- Westboro Baptist Church attempted to organize a rally protesting Kristin Chenoweth's concert at Kansas State, and BroadwayWorld had something to say about it...
- And Tony-winning playwright Brian Friel has passed away at 86.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a high of 66 degrees on this lovely Monday...
Quote of the Day: A word from ON YOUR FEET!'s Gloria Estefan...
"Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force."
-- Gloria Estefan (via BrainyQuote)
What we can't get enough of: Broadway's favorite critic Iain Armitage rapping at #Ham4Ham!
Video of the Day: Get ready for ON YOUR FEET!, starting tonight at the Marquis!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Jesse Eisenberg, who turns 32 today!
Eisenberg made his Broadway debut in SUMMER AND SMOKE in 1996, followed by SCARCITY off-Broadway in 2007. He went on to write and star in three off-Broadway plays -- ASUNCION, THE REVISIONIST, and, most recently, THE SPOILS, which premiered earlier this year. On the big screen, Eisenberg rose to fame playing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Aaron Sorkin's THE SOCIAL NETWORK, for which he earned Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for Best Actor. Among his past film credits are THE VILLAGE, THE LIVING WAKE, ZOMBIELAND, HOLY ROLLERS, NOW YOU SEE ME, the RIO movies and more. The actor, who just released his first book, BREAM GIVES ME HICCUPS, will soon appear in BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE.
Photo by Sandra Coudert
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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