WAKE UP with BWW 6/11/2015 - TAJ, CONSENT, POLITICS, DREAM Open Off-Broadway!
By: Jessica Showers Jun. 11, 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 an off-Broadway extravaganza with four openings tonight!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Rajiv Joseph's GUARDS AT THE TAJ (more here), David Rhodes' CONSENT (more here), Marcy Lovitch's OFFICE POLITICS (here), & Masterworks' A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM open tonight off-Broadway!
- Klein, Charnin, Ellis and more celebrate Madeline Kahn at the Drama Book Shop...
- And across the pond, the West End's SUNNY AFTERNOON performs at the London Music Awards, and EAST IS EAST kicks off its tour in Brighton!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Tony Danza is set to reprise his role on tour in HONEYMOON IN VEGAS!
- Pasquale, Dixon, Shor & more have joined Encores! THE WILD PARTY.
- Ebert, Ryan & Light will appear in Roundabout's THERESE RAQUIN!
- Could BOMBSHELL be headed toward the Hollywood Bowl, or even a full Broadway run?
- MTC will present the World Premiere of Shanley's PRODIGAL SON next year.
- NYMF has named Tony winner Jeanine Tesori its 2015 Honorary Chair, while AN AMERICAN IN PARIS received AEA's 'ACCA' Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus...
- We got all the inside scoop from last week's SCHOOL OF ROCK concerts!
- We got a first look (above, right) at GLORIA off-Broadway.
- And Raven-Symone is the newest co-host on ABC's THE VIEW!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 90 (whew) and partly cloudy today. It's officially time to bust out your summer wardrobe!
Quote of the Day: Wise words from legendary film actor Christopher Lee, who has passed away at the age of 93...
"We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not."
-- Christopher Lee (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: Shoshana Bean and Whitney Bashor singing "Extraordinary" from the Broadway-bound BEACHES at Drury Lane!
Video of the Day: Watch Jason Robert Brown present Stephen Sondheim with the Master Storyteller Award!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Athol Fugard, who turns 83 today!
South African playwright Athol Fugard's works on Broadway have included The Road to Mecca, "MASTER HAROLD"... and the boys, Blood Knot, A Lesson From Aloes, The Island and Sizwe Banzi Is Dead. He received 2011's Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement and has bee honored with several Tony and Drama Desk nominations throughout his career. Fugard is a prolific writer of plays, novels and screenplays, as well as an actor. The film adaptation of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood, won an Academy Award in 2005.
at Long Wharf Theatre last year.
Photo by T. Charles Erickson
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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