WAKE UP with BWW 6/2/2015 - Eisenberg's THE SPOILS, Estefan's ON YOUR FEET! and More!
By: Jessica Showers Jun. 02, 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: Jesse Eisenberg returns to the stage, ON YOUR FEET! starts up in the Windy City and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Jesse Eisenberg's THE SPOILS opens off-Broadway this evening...
- Gloria Estefan's Broadway-bound ON YOUR FEET! begins tonight in Chicago!
- Alan Cumming makes his Cafe Carlyle debut tonight.
- And the company of AMAZING GRACE meets the press today, so stay tuned for photos!
Photo by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- The 2015 Tony Awards will be broadcast in Canada, Australia, Japan and more!
- Brandy will rock CHICAGO through the beginning of August on Broadway.
- Aaron Lazar and Norm Lewis will lead a reading of Stephen Schwartz's THE PRINCE OF EGYPT this summer!
- Director David Fincher is working with novelist Chuck Palahniuk on a FIGHT CLUB rock opera...
- Foster, Fey, Burgess and more will appear at foster kids benefit VOICES FOR THE VOICELESS at the St. James.
- We got a look (right) at EVER AFTER's opening curtain call at Paper Mill...
- A new Disney "musical spectacular" WHEN YOU WISH is coming to Utah this summer.
- And DESCENDANTS, starring Kristin Chenoweth, will premiere on Disney Channel in July!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Rainy again today with a high of 59 degrees. Where did summer go? Come back!
Quote of the Day: A word from ON YOUR FEET!'s Gloria Estefan...
"All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'"
-- Gloria Estefan (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: The Broadway cast albums for AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (click here), THE KING AND I (more here) and SOMETHING ROTTEN!, all out digitally today!
Video of the Day: Watch Lady Gaga sing "La Vie en Rose" in concert at the Hollywood Bowl!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Norm Lewis, who turns 52 today!
Lewis last appeared as Broadway's first African-American 'Phantom' in The Phantom of the Opera. Among his past credits are The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (which earned him a Tony nod in 2012), Sondheim on Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les Miserables, Amour, The Wild Party, Side Show, Chicago, The Who's Tommy and Miss Saigon. He has also appeared off-Broadway in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Dessa Rose, Children of Eden, Golden Boy at Encores!, Captains Courageous and A New Brain, as well as concert productions of Hair, Chess and Dreamgirls. On the small screen, Lewis portrayed 'Senator Edison Davis' in the drama series Scandal.
Photo by Matthew Murphy
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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