WAKE UP with BWW 3/19/2015 - GIGI, THE HEIDI CHRONICLES and More!
By: Jessica Showers Mar. 19, 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: Two strong leading ladies bring THE HEIDI CHRONICLES and GIGI to Broadway tonight!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, starring Elisabeth Moss, opens tonight on Broadway. Check back later for our live Review Roundup!
- Broadway's GIGI with Vanessa Hudgens begins performances this evening.
- DISENCHANTED! returns for its open-ended off-Broadway run, and THE UNDENIABLE SOUND OF RIGHT NOW begins tonight!
- The winners of the 2015 Berwin Lee Playwright Award will be honored tonight...
- And Hunter Ryan Herdlicka and more appear in the MY F#*KED UP VALENTINE benefit concert at 54 Below!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Nick Payne's INCOGNITO and Nick Jones' IMPORTANT HATS have joined MTC's 2015-16 season.
- We got a first look (right) at photos and highlights from Encores! PAINT YOUR WAGON!
- MCC's THE NETHER is being filmed for the archive at the NYPL for the Performing Arts!
- Dancer Sylvie Guillem will receive a Special Award at the 2015 Oliviers...
- Marissa Jaret Winokur will star opposite Megan Hilty in her new ABC comedy.
- And FINDING NEVERLAND musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell is slated to moderate the U.N.'s 'Day of Happiness'...
Broadway Weather Forecast: Bright and sunny with a high of 47 degrees!
Quote of the Day: A word from HEIDI CHRONICLES leading lady Elisabeth Moss...
"There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity."
-- Elisabeth Moss (via BrainyQuote)
What we're looking forward to watching: THE SOUND OF MUSIC - back in select theaters next month!
Video of the Day: A clip from last night's THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SOUND OF MUSIC on ABC!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Glenn Close, who turns 68 today!
Close just starred on Broadway opposite John Lithgow in A Delicate Balance. Among her other Broadway credits are The Play What I Wrote, Sunset Boulevard and Death and the Maiden (both won her Tony Awards -- in 1995 and 1992, respectively), Benefactors, The Real Thing (her first Tony in 1984), Barnum, The Crucifer of Blood, Rex, The Member of the Wedding, The Rules of the Game and Love for Love. She is a three-time Emmy winner for Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story and her part in the FX series Damages. Close has received Oscar nominations for her roles in The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, The Natural, Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons and Albert Nobbs. The actress also won a Golden Globe for her performance in the TV film The Lion in Winter.
Photo by Brigitte Lacombe
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!