WAKE UP with BWW 3/27/2015 - DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and FUN HOME Begin Previews!
By: Jessica Showers Mar. 27, 2015
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO brings its Russian romance to Broadway, while FUN HOME takes the art of the graphic memoir to the stage!
THIS WEEKEND'S TOP ITEMS:
- DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and FUN HOME begin performances on Broadway tonight!
- Peter Sarsgaard stars in Classic Stage Co's HAMLET, beginning tonight.
- Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor reprise their roles in THE LAST FIVE YEARS tonight at A.C.T.
- And Lea Salonga joins the National Symphony Orchestra for DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING this weekend!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Jason Alexander will replace Larry David in FISH IN THE DARK this summer!
- Sophie Okonedo is in talks to lead THE CRUCIBLE on Broadway next year.
- Premieres by A.R. Gurney and Noami Wallace will play Signature's 25th Season!
- We got a sneak peek (right) at the cast of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO in costume!
- Joanna Riding & Claire Moore will lead Barlow & Firth's THE GIRLS musical in Leeds...
- Also across the pond, Ralph Fiennes is set for THE MASTER BUILDER at the Old Vic next year, a revamped ABYSSINIA is headed for Sheffield, and Billy Howle is coming to BAM in GHOSTS next month!
- Coppel, Feiffer & Scheuer are writing new works for Williamstown Theatre Festival.
- TUTS announced its 2015 Tommy Tune Award nominees!
- MTI has the rights to Pasek & Paul's JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH...
- And Craig Zadan & Neil Meron are not returning to produce the 2016 OSCARS.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Light rain and a high of 52 degrees today, with clouds on Saturday and sun on Sunday!
Quote of the Day: A passage by FUN HOME author Alison Bechdel...
"It was a vicious circle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Our home was like an artists' colony. We ate together, but otherwise were absorbed in our separate pursuits. And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion."
-- Alison Bechdel, FUN HOME (via Goodreads)
Video of the Day: Watch the Rockettes in NEW YORK SPRING SPECTACULAR's SINGIN' IN THE RAIN number!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Bartlett Sher, who turns 56 today!
Sher is currently directing Broadway's The King and I. Before that, he helmed The Bridges of Madison County, Golden Boy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, South Pacific (which won him a Tony and a Drama Desk in 2008), Awake and Sing! and The Light in the Piazza. Among his off-Broadway directorial gigs are Blood and Gifts, Prayer for My Enemy, Don Juan, Cymbeline, The Butterfly Collection, Waste and The Nest. Sher is also directing this year's revival of Fiddler on the Roof. He has served as associate artistic director at Hartford Stage, company director at Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater, artistic director at Seattle's Intiman Theatre and resident director at Lincoln Center Theater.
Photo by Walter McBride
See you bright and early on Monday, BroadwayWorld!