Today's Events!
- Wishful Drinking, actress-writer Carrie Fisher's darkly comic autobiographical solo show about her adventures in Hollywood - and her experiences with substance abuse and mental illness - begins a run at Broadway's Studio 54 on Sept. 22.
- The Boys in the Photograph, the reinvention of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton's earlier London musical The Beautiful Game, makes its Toronto premiere Sept. 22 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
- Tony Award winner Beth Leavel and Tony Award nominee John Dossett join the cast of Broadway's Mamma Mia!.
- Charlayne Woodard stars in the New York premiere of her solo show The Night Watcher, directed by Daniel Sullivan, for Primary Stages Off-Broadway.
- The new musical Imelda - a look at the life of the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos - begins previews Off-Broadway at the Julia Miles Theatre Sept. 22.
- The Broadway League and the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG) present Broadway Salutes - described as "a unique public celebration honoring the myriad of artists who have made Broadway great for decades" - Sept. 22 in Manhattan, hosted by Brian Stokes Mitchell.
- Cast members of the acclaimed revival of West Side Story will be presented with Actors' Equity Association's Third Annual Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus Sept. 22.
- The IFC Center in Manhattan offers a rare screening of "Jane," which chronicles the Broadway debut of Academy Award winner Jane Fonda, Sept. 22.
ngl, Imelda looks like it's just Evita set in the Philippines, but two of the actresses in it graduated from my high school, so I might have to check it out.