WAKE UP with BWW 10/6/14 - Chenoweth & Lippa in I AM HARVEY MILK, Cherry Lane at 90 and More!
By: Jessica Showers Oct. 06, 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: I AM HARVEY MILK plays Lincoln Center, CHICAGO welcomes back a veteran 'Roxie', Cherry Lane celebrates 90 years and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- I AM HARVEY MILK, with Kristin Chenoweth and Andrew Lippa, makes its New York premiere tonight!
- Amy Spanger returns to CHICAGO as 'Roxie' tonight.
- Cherry Lane Theatre marks its 90th anniversary with tonight's gala honoring Estelle Parsons...
- Career Transition for Dancers hosts its annual jubilee this evening with tons of guest stars and a special award for Angela Lansbury!
- Preview new musicals TUCK EVERLASTING, EVER AFTER and more in BOUND FOR BROADWAY tonight.
- Playwrights Dan O'Brien and Suzan-Lori Parks receive the 2014 Horton Foote Prize today...
- The company of the Kennedy Center's LITTLE DANCER meets the press today, so stay tuned for photos!
- And set your DVR! Carol Burnett will appear on FALLON tonight.
NEWS YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- Cary Elwes has confirmed that THE PRINCESS BRIDE is "a go" for Broadway!
- SIDE SHOW is getting a new cast recording, set for release in early 2015...
- Starting in February, Emma Hatton will star as 'Elphaba' in WICKED in the West End.
- The Royal Opera House's WIND IN THE WILLOWS just announced its full cast.
- We got a first look at highlights from Paper Mill's Broadway-bound CAN-CAN!
- And Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen are set for a new big screen adaptation of THE DRESSER.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Beautiful Monday - high of 70 and sunny!
Quote of the Day: A word from I AM HARVEY MILK's Kristin Chenoweth...
I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.
-- Kristin Chenoweth (via BrainyQuote)
What we're looking forward to: The INTO THE WOODS movie tie-in book with the full libretto!
Video of the Day: MISS SAIGON's full 25th anniversary finale in London!
And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Michael Arden, who turns 31 today!
Arden, who will star in The Hunchback of Notre Dame this fall at La Jolla Playhouse, made his Broadway debut in Big River in 2003 and appeared off-Broadway in Bare in 2004, followed by Swimming in the Shallows at Second Stage in 2005. He has also appeared on the Great White Way in The Times They Are A-Changin'. In 2008, he assistant directed Broadway's A Tale of Two Cities. In 2010, Arden appeared in Aspects of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. And he just got engaged to fellow stage star Andy Mientus!
Photo by Catherine Ashmore.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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