WAKE UP with BWW 9/18/14 - LOVE LETTERS, FOUND, TAIL! SPIN! and THE MUSIC MAN!
By: Jessica Showers Sep. 18, 2014
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: LOVE LETTERS welcomes its first duo to the Broadway stage tonight, Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy take THE MUSIC MAN on tour, TAIL! SPIN!, FOUND and ALMOST HOME begin off-Broadway and more!
Next up in our series of Broadway stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Erin Driscoll (portrait by Walter McBride), currently starring in Signature's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE in D.C., and who appeared off-Broadway in this summer's CLOAK AND DAGGER. On to a busy Thursday of news!
Photo by Walter McBride.
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- LOVE LETTERS, starring Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow, opens tonight on Broadway! Check back for our live Review Roundup...
- Shirley Jones and her son Patrick Cassidy launch their MUSIC MAN concert tour tonight in Mason City!
- TAIL! SPIN! with Arnie Burton, Rachel Dratch and more, begins performances off-Broadway; FOUND starts previews tonight at Atlantic Theater Company; and ALMOST HOME opens at Cherry Lane!
- And on the regional scene, UNDER MILK WOOD starts tonight with an all-Welsh cast in Los Angeles, and Jim Brochu's CHARACTER MAN begins in Boston.
WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- The new AMERICAN PSYCHO musical is aiming for a Fall 2015 Broadway opening!
- Carly Hughes joins PIPPIN tomorrow as the musical's new 'Leading Player'.
- We got a first look at Broadway's 'CURIOUS INCIDENT' (right) as well as THE COUNTRY HOUSE (here) and LOVE LETTERS (here)!
- Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce and Simon Bowman will appear in MISS SAIGON's 25th Anniversary performance!
- Audra McDonald will star in a film adaptation of the "sexual tryst-themed" musical HELLO AGAIN.
- Playwright Samuel D. Hunter is among this year's MacArthur fellows.
- A new Joan Rivers biography will hit the shelves in 2016...
- And Barbra Streisand's new album PARTNERS is rocketing toward No. 1 on the BIllboard 200!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 76 degrees and sunny. Cooler this evening, so bring a sweater to the theater. What a beautiful week!
Quote of the Day: LOVE LETTERS star Mia Farrow on thinking big...
I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.
-- Mia Farrow (via BrainyQuote)
What we're looking forward to listening to: THE REMIX COLLECTION FROM HERE LIES LOVE, out September 30! The album will feature reimaginings of the music from the off-Broadway musical, with proceeds going to Gawad Kalinga, a charity dedicated to typhoon relief and ending poverty in the Philippines.
Video of the Day: A cappella group VoicePlay just released a fun music video counting down Broadway's Top 10, featuring hits from CHICAGO, LES MIS, LION KING, PHANTOM, BOOK OF MORMON and WICKED. Check it out below!
And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Nina Arianda, who turns 30 today!
Arianda has starred on Broadway in 2011's Born Yesterday and Venus in Fur, the latter for which she won the 2012 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. She also appeared in Manhattan Theatre Club's Tales From Red Vienna this spring and this summer's Fool For Love at Williamstown Theatre Festival. She will star as Janis Joplin in the upcoming film Janis; among her other big screen credits are Midnight in Paris, Lucky Them, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.
Photo by Joan Marcus.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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