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WAKE UP with BWW 12/31/14 - Met's MERRY WIDOW and A Happy New Year!
By: Jessica Showers Dec. 31, 2014
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This holiday's big news: Susan Stroman directs THE MERRY WIDOW, starring Kelli O'Hara and Renée Fleming, Broadway's brightest stars chime in on tonight's New Year's celebrations and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Kelli O'Hara makes her Met Opera debut alongside Renée Fleming in THE MERRY WIDOW tonight!
- Laura Benanti rings in the New Year at 54 Below tonight...
- LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER features Norm Lewis and Dianne Reeves in an all-Gershwin concert with the NY Phil this evening.
- Be sure to tune in tonight! Idina Menzel is set to perform FROZEN's 'Let It Go' on NEW YEAR'S ROCKIN' EVE!
- And if you want a list of what's happening on New Year's Eve around the Broadway world, click HERE!
KENNEDY CENTER HONORS
WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- We got a look (right) at this year's star-studded KENNEDY CENTER HONORS!
- MAMMA MIA! is now Broadway's eighth longest-running show!
- REBECCA just released new audio clips and is still aiming for a fall 2015 debut on Broadway...
- WICKED's Munchkinland Tour will welcome a new 'Elphaba' and 'Nessarose' for 2015!
- And the INTO THE WOODS movie soundtrack has hit the iTunes Top 10, with "Agony" as its best-selling single!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Sunny today through Friday with temps in the high 30s, then rain on Saturday and Sunday, with a high of almost 60 degrees for Sunday!
Quote of the Day: Birthday girl Bebe Neuwirth on being, first and foremost, a dancer...
"I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer."
-- Bebe Neuwirth (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett's CHEEK TO CHEEK Collector's Edition box set, hitting stores today!
What we're watching: BBC Two's just-released trailer for its upcoming WOLF HALL adaptation, starring stage great Mark Rylance and more!
Video of the Day: Get ready for tonight's festivities with Morgan James singing Frank Loesser's "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve"!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Bebe Neuwirth, who turns 56 today!
Neuwirth returned to Broadway's Chicago this year to play 'Matron Mama Morton' (she won a 1997 Tony and Drama Desk Award for her roles in the show). She has also starred onstage in The Addams Family, Fosse, Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity (for which she received her first Tony in 1986), Little Me, Dancin' and A Chorus Line. Neuwirth started her TV career in Cheers and Frasier and went on to appear in The Good Wife, Blue Bloods and now Madam Secretary.
Photo by Walter McBride
See you bright and early on Monday, BroadwayWorld!
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