Wake Up With BWW 5/10: COME FROM AWAY Cast Returns to Film the Show, and More!

Good morning, BroadwayWorld!

Christine Pedi's concert, as part of Seth Rudetsky's Seth Concert Series, premiered yesterday at 3pm, and re-aired at 8pm. Watch her perform a Les Miserables medley in an exclusive clip!

Laura Benanti has released a new music video for the song 'Wives & Lovers' off her self-titled debut album.

Plus, the cast of Come From Away returned to the Schoenfeld Theatre this weekend to film the show. Watch as fans greet them as they enter!

Read more about these and other top stories below!

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1) ICYMI: Watch the Top 30 College Students Perform for Next on Stage: Season 3!

Who made it through to our college top 30? Watch to find out!. (more...)

2) Exclusive: Christine Pedi Performs a LES MISERABLES Medley With Seth Rudetsky

Christine Pedi's concert, as part of Seth Rudetsky's Seth Concert Series, premiered yesterday at 3pm, and re-aired at 8pm.. (more...)

3) BWW Review: SIGNATURE RECITAL: CHRISTINE GOERKE AND CRAIG TERRY at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin

Christine Goerke and Craig Terry's Recital can be seen on the Los Angeles Opera website as part of the five-part Signature Recital Series offered for $45 per household. Performances will be streamed until July 1, 2021. Goerke and Terry opened with a wildly dramatic rendition of Handel's fire and brimstone"Furie Terribili," ("Dreadful Furies") from Rinaldo. Goerke then introduced a group of Italian songs in honor of her mother whose lineage is Sicilian and Neapolitan.. (more...)

Today's Call Sheet - Upcoming Online Events:

- The Met's nightly opera streams continue tonight at 7:30pm with Puccini's La Bohème Starring Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Richard Stilwell, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From January 16, 1982.

- Jim Caruso's Pajama Cast Party returns tonight at 8pm. For the past seventeen years, Jim Caruso's Cast Party has been inspiring superstars and up-and-comers to storm the Birdland stage with memorable impromptu performances. The "extreme open mic" takes place in New York City every single Monday, Broadway's "dark" night, making it the regular go-to place for show folk and the people who love them.

Learn about more online streaming events happening today, and in the future, on our streaming calendar at /streaming-schedule/.

What we're watching: Laura Benanti Releases Music Video For 'Wives & Lovers'

Laura Benanti has released a new music video for the song 'Wives & Lovers' from her recent self-titled album.

The video pays tribute to mothers, in honor of Mother's Day, and shows Benanti donning a vintage dress, as she sings about what makes a "perfect" mother.

Social Butterfly: Fans Greet the Cast of COME FROM AWAY As They Arrive to Film the Show

The cast of Come From Away returned to the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre today for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and were greeted with a cheering audience.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Come From Away is being filmed for a release this September. Christopher Ashley, who received the Tony Award for his direction of the Broadway production, directs.

See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!