WAKE UP with BWW 1/20/2015 - HAMILTON, 'PRAY FOR YOU SO HARD', LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and More!
By: Jessica Showers Jan. 20, 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: HAMILTON and 'PRAY FOR YOU SO HARD' start off-Broadway, vampires creep into NYC with LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and more!
Next up in our series of stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Jennifer Ashley Tepper (portrait by Walter McBride), producer, musical theatre historian and writer behind THE UNTOLD STORIES OF BROADWAY multivolume collection, as well as the co-creator of the IF IT ONLY EVEN RUNS A MINUTE concert series... Good morning, Jennifer!
Photo by Walter McBride
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Lin-Manuel Miranda's HAMILTON begins previews tonight at the Public!
- I'M GONNA PRAY FOR YOU SO HARD opens this evening off-Broadway.
- John Tiffany directs LET THE RIGHT ONE IN in its American stage debut tonight...
- And the companies of THE HEIDI CHRONICLES and JOHN & JEN meet the press, so stay tuned for photos!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Following its final Broadway bow, THE LAST SHIP company will reunite at 54 Below in March!
- SOUL DOCTOR will close off-Broadway this Sunday...
- We got a peek (right) at MOTOWN's final broadway bows this weekend!
- THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL's Cicely Tyson will star in a ROOTS-inspired film from director Michael Wilson.
- A presentation of the Broadway-bound musical EMPIRE is set for this week in Manhattan.
- Across the pond, Julian Essex-Spurrier will star in the 5th Annual UK tour of AN EVENING OF DIRTY DANCING, and THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS will make its World Premiere at Chichester!
- And Joey Fatone is joining the Las Vegas cast of ROCK OF AGES next month.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a high of 41 degrees - looks like we're missing all the snow from the rest of the country! No complaints here.
Quote of the Day: Birthday boy Rainn Wilson on expanding his range...
"I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well."
-- Rainn Wilson (via BrainyQuote)
What we're watching: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's CHEEK TO CHEEK LIVE! concert, coming to DVD and Blu-ray today!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Rainn Wilson, who turns 49 today!
Best known for his role as 'Dwight Schrute' in the long-running TV comedy The Office, Wilson made his Broadway debut in 1995 in The Tempest. He appeared onstage in London Assurance two years later. Wilson kicks off a new TV series Backstrom this week on FOX and will next be seen on the big screen in Uncanny and The Boy.
Photo courtesy NBC.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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