WAKE UP with BWW 5/20/2015 - PERMISSION, Kander & Miranda at THE VISIT and More!
By: Jessica Showers May. 20, 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: PERMISSION opens off-Broadway, Lin-Manuel Miranda joins John Kander after THE VISIT and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- THE VISIT welcomes John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda for an historic conversation tonight!
- PERMISSION, starring Justin Bartha and Elizabeth Reaser, opens this evening.
- Rajiv Joseph's GUARDS AT THE TAJ begins off-Broadway tonight...
- And Ziemba, Skinner & Cassidy lead A.C.T.'s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, starting tonight in San Fran!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- LOVE NEVER DIES will head out on a US tour in 2017!
- Dan Fogler, Ana Gasteyer, Aaron Lazar and more have signed on for Encores! Off-Center's A NEW BRAIN.
- We got a look (right) at Jonathan Groff and company in 'HOW TO SUCEED...' in concert across the pond!
- Sierra Boggess, Brandy, Tony Yazbeck are among the performers for STARS IN THE ALLEY 2015.
- HAMILTON and more won this year's Off-Broadway Alliance Awards.
- Lesli Margherita is leaving Broadway's MATILDA this fall...
- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is booking through next April.
- Bernadette Peters is narrating a 60th anniversary compilation of ELOISE stories!
- And Darren Stein is turning JAWBREAKER into a musical...
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 70 degrees and sunny. Happy Hump Day!
Quote of the Day: A word from PERMISSION's Elizabeth Reaser...
"My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times."
-- Elizabeth Reaser (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: Josh Groban's rendition of CAROUSEL's "You'll Never Walk Alone" from STAGES!
What we're watching: Lea Michele and company in the first full-length trailer for FOX's SCREAM QUEENS!
Video of the Day: Watch Alec Cyganowski and Lindsay Pearce perform "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" from glory|struck's immersive AMERICAN IDIOT in L.A.!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Sierra Boggess, who turns 33 today!
Boggess is currently starring on Broadway in It Shoulda Been You. Among her past credits are Master Class, The Little Mermaid and The Phantom of the Opera. She also led Love Never Dies and Les Miserables in the West End, as well as off-Broadway's Love, Loss, and What I Wore, a New York reading of Princesses, and Encores! Music in the Air with Kristin Chenoweth.
Photo by Joan Marcus
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
Videos