WAKE UP with BWW 12/22/14 - New Stars for ALADDIN and CABARET, Liz Callaway Ushers in the Holidays and More!
By: Jessica Showers Dec. 22, 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: New players join ALADDIN and CABARET on Broadway, Liz Callaway brings the holidays to 54 Below and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Steel Burkhardt joins ALADDIN's traveling cohort tonight on Broadway!
- Hani Furstenberg steps up as 'Fraulein Kost' in CABARET this evening.
- Liz Callaway starts her holiday show at 54 Below tonight...
- And the company of the Broadway-bound GIGI meets the press today, so stay tuned for photos!
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- THE RIVER, starring Hugh Jackman, has recouped on Broadway!
- The Bradley Cooper-led ELEPHANT MAN is extending through February...
- We got a full-fledged look (right) at CATS, back in the West End!
- Plus photos from Atlantic's DYING FOR IT off-Broadway...
- Graham Scott Fleming will star as 'Charlie Price' in Toronto's KINKY BOOTS.
- Over in the UK, DONKEY HEART is headed to the West End, as URINETOWN has set an early closing date...
- And lots of congratulations are in order -- Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard welcomed a baby girl, Patti Murin and Colin Donnell are engaged, and Elton John and David Furnish tied the knot this weekend!
Broadway Weather Forecast: 45 degrees and overcast. But never fret, it's almost Christmas!
Quote of the Day: Cabaret star Liz Callaway on keeping the first take...
"A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect."
-- Liz Callaway (via BrainyQuote)
What we're watching: A new clip from INTO THE WOODS (out this Thursday!!), featuring Lilla Crawford as 'Little Red'!
Video of the Day: Host Amy Adams and the SNL cast performed a tune from MAME on Saturday. Check it out below!
And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Andrew Lippa, who turns 50 today!
Lippa has written the music and lyrics for Broadway's Big Fish, The Addams Family (for which he received a Tony nomination), and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He also wrote the music for The Farnsworth Invention and helped conduct Patti LuPone on Broadway. Before his work on the Great White Way, Lippa started out as a pianist at Goodspeed and other regional theaters. Goodspeed produced his first musical, John & Jen, which went on to an NYC run. Among his other works are The Wild Party, a musical version of A Little Princess and most recently, I Am Harvey Milk, which starred Kristin Chenoweth.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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