WAKE UP with BWW 5/19/2015 - Drama Critics Circle Awards, THE WAY WE GET BY, ELEPHANT MAN in London and More!
By: Jessica Showers May. 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: It's a busy Tuesday with Criss hosting BROADWAY JUNIOR, the NY Drama Critics Circle Awards, 'HOW TO SUCCEED' with Groff and THE ELEPHANT MAN with Cooper in London, and three off-Broadway beginnings!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Darren Criss hosts BROADWAY JUNIOR today at the Imperial Theatre!
- The 2015 New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards are presented tonight.
- York's CAGNEY, starring Robert Creighton, begins this evening...
- Jonathan Groff leads 'HOW TO SUCCEED...' in concert tonight at Royal Festival Hall!
- Bradley Cooper stars in THE ELEPHANT MAN, starting tonight in London.
- And MTC's HEISENBERG (more here) and Second Stage's THE WAY WE GET BY open off-Broadway tonight!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Taye Diggs is Broadway's next HEDWIG!
- HAMILTON, Darko Tresnjak, Ayad Akhtar and more won 2015 Obie Awards!
- The HONEYMOON IN VEGAS cast will reunite with Jason Robert Brown at SubCulture next month.
- Off-Broadway's CLINTON: THE MUSICAL is getting a cast album, plus we got a look at the track list for THE KING AND I!
- We got a first look (right) at Sheffield's PRIDE & PREJUDICE, plus THE SOUND AND THE FURY at The Public!
- THE COLOR PURPLE's Cynthia Erivo will star in SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD in the West End...
- And THE AUDIENCE's Helen Mirren has signed on for NBC's RED NOSE DAY charity event.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Rainy this morning with a high of 77 degrees; clear tonight!
Quote of the Day: A word from THE WAY WE GET BY's Thomas Sadoski...
"Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game."
-- Thomas Sadoski (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: SIDE SHOW's 'ADDED ATTRACTIONS' live 54 Below album, FUN HOME's updated cast recording, and ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY's revival album -- all out today!
Video of the Day: In honor of HAMILTON's Obie win last night, watch Lin-Manuel Miranda rap a cut song from the show!
During a post show talkback after #HAMILTONpublic, Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped a cut song from the show portraying Hamilton's outrage at the comments of John Adams.
Posted by Hamilton the Musical on Sunday, May 17, 2015
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!