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WAKE UP with BWW 7/1/2015 - 'LITTLE SHOP' at Encores! and More!
By: Jessica Showers Jul. 01, 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: Ashman & Menken's classic LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS returns to the stage tonight!
Next up in our series of stars introducing BWW's morning feature is the legendary Jason Robert Brown (portrait by Walter McBride), composer/lyricist behind HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, 13, URBAN COWBOY, PARADE, SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD and more!
Photo by Walter McBride
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Jake Gyllenhaal leads Encores! Off-Center's LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, opening tonight!
- Darko Tresnjak helms Anastasia Barzee in KISS ME, KATE, starting tonight at The Old Globe...
- Billy Joel will break a lifetime record with tonight's concert at Madison Square Garden!
- Be sure to set your DVR! The creators of 'MIGHTY REAL...' will appear on TV One's UNSUNG tonight.
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Jessica Hecht and Adam Kantor have joined Danny Burstein in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF!
- Broadway's IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU will close in August...
- Bobby Steggert, Mara Davi and more will star in Goodspeed's MY PARIS!
- Garth Drabinsky, infamous producer convicted of fraud, is developing 'HARD TIMES' for Broadway.
- We got a look at highlights from SHOWS FOR DAYS, plus a peek (right) at this year's Jimmy Awards!
- Betty Buckley isn't letting a broken back keep her from GREY GARDENS...
- And stage and screen star Anthony Mackie will play MLK in HBO's ALL THE WAY adaptation!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 85 degrees and cloudy today. The week is halfway gone!
Quote of the Day: A word from LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS star Jake Gyllenhaal...
"I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline."
-- Jake Gyllenhaal (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: Jennifer Hudson's "Too Beautiful for Words" from THE COLOR PURPLE, now available for download!
Here's your first look at Jennifer Hudson singing in The Color Purple Musical!
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Video of the Day: In honor of Encores! Off-Center's LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, watch Ellen Greene & Rick Moranis perform "Suddenly Seymour" in the 1986 film!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Terrence Mann, who turns 64 today!
A Tony nominee, Mann last appeared on Broadway in Pippin, and before that, The Addams Family, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Lennon, The Rocky Horror Show, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Getting Away with Murder, Beauty and the Beast, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Les Miserables, Rags, Cats and Barnum. Among his off-Broadway credits are The Guys, Promises, Promises at Encores!, Assassins and more. The actor also played a role in Richard Attenborough's film version of A Chorus Line. He recently starred in Connecticut Rep's Les Miserables and frequently does work at regional theaters across the U.S.
Photo by Gerry Goodstein
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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