WAKE UP with BWW 3/18/2015 - Encores! PAINT YOUR WAGON and More!
By: Jessica Showers Mar. 18, 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: Encores! PAINT YOUR WAGON begins tonight and more!
Next up in our series of stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Andy Mientus (portrait by Walter McBride), who just finished his run on Broadway in LES MISERABLES and recently appeared in Manhattan Concert Productions' PARADE, as well as the cult TV series SMASH!
Photo by Walter McBride
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Encores! PAINT YOUR WAGON, starring Keith Carradine, opens tonight at the City Center!
- And BAD JEWS transfers to the West End this evening!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Broadway's CHICAGO will welcome back Paige Davis and Amra-Faye Wright this month!
- Barrett Wilbert Weed has signed on for Signature Theatre's CABARET.
- We got a first look (right) at photos and highlights from Signature Theatre's SOON; plus Arielle Jacobs & PJ Benjamin in WICKED (here)!
- Stephen Karam and Zinnie Harris are this year's Berwin Lee Playwrights Award winners.
- Wes Bentley has booked a stay at AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL...
- Dee Dee Bridgewater's DEE DEE'S FEATHERS album will be out this summer and THE LAST FIVE YEARS will be out on DVD and Blu-ray this May!
- And across the pond, HETTY FEATHER will play a summer run at Duke of York's, and PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT is headed out on tour!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Blustery and partly cloudy with a high of 44 degrees.
Quote of the Day: A word from birthday girl and YOUNGER star Sutton Foster...
"I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy."
-- Sutton Foster (via BrainyQuote)
What we're watching: Julie Andrews in THE UNTOLD STORY OF 'THE SOUND OF MUSIC' special, airing tonight on ABC!
Video of the Day: Watch a new promo for Broadway's AIRLINE HIGHWAY!
And a double Happy Birthday shout-out to Sutton Foster, who hits the big 4-0, and John Kander, who turns 88 today!
Foster last graced the Broadway stage in Violet. Before that, she starred in Anything Goes (which earned her a Tony and a Drama Desk Award in 2011), Shrek The Musical, Young Frankenstein, The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Women, Thoroughly Modern Millie (her first Tony and Drama Desk in 2002), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie, Grease and Les Miserables. She is the star of TV Land's new series Younger, alongside Hilary Duff.
Three-time Tony-winning composer and lyricist John Kander's The Visit will soon be seen on Broadway, starring Chita Rivera. He is one half of the legendary Kander and Ebb songwriting team. Among his other works are Cabaret, The Scottsboro Boys, Come Fly Away, Curtains, Fosse, Steel Pier, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Rink, Zorba, Woman of the Year, The Act, Chicago, Liza, 70, Girls, 70, The Happy Time, Flora, The Red Menace and A Family Affair. He also did the dance arrangements for Gypsy and Irma la Douce.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!