WAKE UP with BWW 5/28/2015 - AN ACT OF GOD, CAGNEY, SPRING AWAKENING and More!
By: Jessica Showers May. 28, 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: AN ACT OF GOD opens on the Great White Way, York opens CAGNEY, Deaf West's SPRING AWAKENING returns to LA and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- AN ACT OF GOD, starring Jim Parsons, opens tonight on Broadway!
- Robert Creighton leads York Theatre Company's CAGNEY, opening tonight.
- Deaf West's SPRING AWAKENING, featuring Krysta Rodriguez and more, opens in LA...
- Terrence Mann directs and stars in CRT's LES MISERABLES, starting this evening!
- Betty Buckley brings DARK BLUE-EYED BLUES to Joe's Pub this weekend.
- And check out SAG & BWW's 'Career Conversation' today with Tony nominee Michael Cerveris!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- OITNB's Danielle Brooks will make her Broadway debut in THE COLOR PURPLE!
- Broadway's ALLEGIANCE has found its full cast!
- Esparza, Page, Burton and more signed on for Shakespeare in the Park's CYMBELINE!
- Glenne Headly will join Broadway's FISH IN THE DARK next month.
- D'Arcy James, Jordan, McKechnie and more have boarded the BOMBSHELL benefit!
- Jessie Mueller and James Monroe Iglehart are set to co-host the Creative Arts Tony Awards.
- Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine and the original cast of INTO THE WOODS will reunite in June!
- Colin Firth might play 'Henry Higgins' in the Broadway revival of MY FAIR LADY...
- We got a first look (above, right) at Deaf West's SPRING AWAKENING!
- And Julie Taymor's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is headed to U.S. theaters.
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 85 degrees today with thunderstorms tonight. Don't forget your umbrella!
Quote of the Day: A word from Broadway's big man, Jim Parsons...
"If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material."
-- Jim Parsons (via BrainyQuote)
What we're looking forward to listening to: Danielle Hope's live album, out next month!
Video of the Day: Watch Christian Borle and the cast of SOMETHING ROTTEN! prove "It's Hard to Be the Bard" at STARS IN THE ALLEY!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Carey Mulligan, who hits the big 3-0 today!
Mulligan is currently starring opposite Bill Nighy in Skylight on Broadway; she received a Tony nomination for her role, which she originated in London. Before that, the actress appeared in Broadway's The Seagull, as well as off-Broadway in Through a Glass Darkly. She made her London stage debut in Forty Winks and her big screen debut in 2005's Pride & Prejudice. Mulligan was nominated for an Oscar for her part in the film An Education. She has also appeared in the films Never Let Me Go, Drive, Shame, The Great Gatsby, Inside Llewyn Davis and the upcoming Far from the Madding Crowd and Suffragette.
Photo by John Haynes
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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