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WAKE UP with BWW 12/15/14 - POCATELLO, MR. MAGOO, NOT THE MESSIAH and More!
By: Jessica Showers Dec. 15, 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: POCATELLO opens off-Broadway, MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS and 26 PEBBLES benefit good causes, and NOT THE MESSIAH begins tonight at Carnegie Hall!
Next up in our series of Broadway stars introducing BWW's morning feature is James Snyder, (portrait by Walter McBride), who currently appears opposite Idina Menzel in IF/THEN!
Photo by Walter McBride
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- POCATELLO, starring GREY'S ANATOMY's T.R. Knight, opens this evening at Playwrights Horizons!
- Douglas Sills stars in tonight's MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS benefit for The Actors Fund.
- Tonight's benefit reading of 26 PEBBLES commemorates the 2nd anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook...
- Lots of benefits this evening! Lindsay Mendez, Jeremy Jordan and more will appear in support of ASTEP at Joe's Pub!
- Marsha Mason & Kate Baldwin are set for Acting Company's BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE reading today.
- And NOT THE MESSIAH, featuring Eric Idle and Victoria Clark, begins tonight at Carnegie Hall!
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- SIDE SHOW will be closing early on Broadway, with SOMETHING ROTTEN! as its likely successor...
- A stage adaptation of FROZEN was confirmed on ABC's broadcast of BACKSTAGE WITH DISNEY ON BROADWAY!
- ROCK OF AGES' Chris D'Arienzo is working on a stage adaptation of Martin Scorcese's KING OF COMEDY...
- Original MOTOWN Broadway cast member Julius Thomas III has joined the musical's national tour.
- James Monroe Iglehart, Rebecca Naomi Jones and more signed on for this year's JOE ICONIS CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR!
- We got a first look (right) at Sheryl Crow's DINER in D.C. and Angela Lansbury in the BLITHE SPIRIT North American tour (here).
- We got a peek at footage of the winning numbers from BC/EFA's GYPSY OF THE YEAR!
- And finally, NBC will air an encore of 2013's THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE! this weekend.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Sunny and clear with a high of 48 degrees. Happy Monday!
Quote of the Day: POCATELLO's T.R. Knight on his love for New York City...
"They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that."
-- T. R. Knight (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: The deluxe, two-disc INTO THE WOODS movie soundtrack, out today and already in the Top 20!
Video of the Day: Watch Darren Criss perform "Proud of Your Boy" from ALADDIN in ABC's BACKSTAGE WITH DISNEY ON BROADWAY!
And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Michelle Dockery, who turns 33 today!
Michelle Dockery is best known for her role as 'Lady Mary Crawley' on the UK series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for three Emmys and a Golden Globe. Dockery first appeared onstage in His Dark Materials at the National in 2004 and went on to star in the 2007 London revival of Pygmalion, which earned her an Evening Standard Award nomination. Dockery received an Olivier nod for Burnt by the Sun in 2009. She has also starred in stage productions of Pillars of the Community, Uncle Vanya and Hamlet.
Photo by Austin Hargrave
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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