Photo by Aubrey Reuben
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation awarded Globe Theatres artistic director Jack O'Brien with the Mr. Abbott Award (named for the late playwright and director George Abbott) for his lifelong contributions to theatre. O'Brien has garnered four Tony nominations and a Broadway barrage of serious plays and musical comedies from Imaginary Friends, Two Shakespearean Actors, Little Foxes and The Invention of Love to Hairspray, The Full Monty and Damn Yankees.
Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada lead the cast of the book-to-stage adaptation.
The show dedicates its ongoing fundraising efforts to Diamond and the one million people in the United States living with Parkinson's disease.
The mid-April evening offered variations on gold, purple, and white.
Anne Kauffman is directing the Amy Herzog play, about a single mom raising an ill child, for Manhattan Theatre Club.
The committee also made eligibility rulings for The Notebook, Harmony, Water for Elephants, and more.
"This is your sign if you're a younger actor wanting to pursue this, that it's possible and you can do it and not to give up."
The album, featuring Broadway cast Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, is due out in May.
Del Aguila recently went viral for posting a video of offstage antics.
Plus, the opening night attendees included Melissa McCarthy, Sara Bareilles, D'Arcy Carden, Meena Harris, Dylan Mulvaney, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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