WAKE UP with BWW 2/3/2016 - Alice & Emily Reunite, Nathan Lane and More!

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: THE WEDGE HORSE opens off-Broadway and SIDE SHOW stars Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner reunite in concert this evening!

Next up in our series of stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Noah Haidle (portrait by Walter McBride), playwright behind SMOKEFALL, which begins this week at MCC Theater!

NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

- James Corden is the host of the 2016 Tony Awards!
- HEISENBERG, with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, will open on Broadway this fall.
- Aaron Tveit, Lea Salonga, Megan Hilty, Shanice Williams and more are set for MCC's MISCAST 2016!
- Ben Platt, Laura Dreyfuss and Rachel Bay Jones will return for DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Second Stage.
- André Ward just joined Broadway's SOMETHING ROTTEN!
- FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is getting a cast album this spring.
- We got a peek (right) at Nathan Lane and more in THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON, shots of HAMILTON's Daveed Diggs on LAW & ORDER: SVU, and a preview of Encores! CABIN IN THE SKY!
- Michael Cerveris and more will honor John Weidman with Signature's 2016 Stephen Sondheim Award...
- And Lady Gaga will pay tribute to David Bowie at this year's GRAMMY Awards!

Broadway Weather Forecast: Rainy and windy with a high of 59 degrees. Is it spring already?

What we're watching: MADOFF, starring stage vets Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, beginning tonight on ABC!

Video of the Day: In honor of Nathan Lane's birthday, watch a scene from Broadway's Tony-winning GUYS AND DOLLS!

And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Nathan Lane, who turns 60 today!

Lane recently starred in Roundabout's THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER benefit reading and in THE ICEMAN COMETH off-Broadway. He last appeared on Broadway in IT'S ONLY A PLAY. Among the prolific actor's other credits on the Great White Way are THE NANCE, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, WAITING FOR GODOT, NOVEMBER, BUTLEY, THE ODD COUPLE, THE FROGS, THE PLAY WHAT I WROTE, THE PRODUCERS (which won him a Tony and a Drama Desk in 2001; he also reprised the role in the West End), A FUNNY THING...FORUM (another Tony), LOVE!, VALOR!, COMPASSION! (Tony winner), LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR, GUYS AND DOLLS, WIND IN THE WILLOWS, PRESENT LAUGHTER and more, as well as countless off-Broadway productions. Lane will soon appear in FX's THE PEOPLE V. O.J. IMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY. He is known for his film roles in THE BIRDCAGE and the movie adaptations of GUYS AND DOLLS and THE PRODUCERS, as well as his recurring parts on TV's MODERN FAMILY and THE GOOD WIFE. He was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2008.