Hello, Thank you, Nice to meet you

Broadway is celebrating tonight with the Tony Awards but OMG is celebrating something even bigger than a Tony that's also Broadway related.

When OMG met Jake on Broadway.

Yes met Jake - not just going seeing Jake on Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George (which made this fan so proud of your performance) - but met you Jakey.

(Waiting Jake's team to have a moment or the vapors or a scream or scrambling like it's DEFCON 1)

Jakey we met at the stage door after a matinee.


 

I had seen the show the night before and your performance was moving - your love of acting and the interplay of the energy of the audience apparent - your singing top notch - you claimed your seat at the Broadway table with Sondheim!

You came out that afternoon and were kind gracious to sign autographs.
 
 

And standing right there you  never even know that Special K was in front of you asking you to sign her Playbill and thanking you in return.

The world didn't stop spinning, nothing exploded, it was just a moment between a fan and a performer they've admired for years.

Thanks Jakey


PS:  Next time we'll have to talk about all those stories from friends in the industry about you being a bit of screamer  (tsk tsk - I thought that was just at home with a certain tall Texan



;)

Reading, Reading and Beekeeping

 Jake was one of the few who joined his sister and the original cast for a reading of
 “The Real Thing” at the Beatrice Inn.   Graydon Carter and Tom Stoppard hosted a dinner for guests including Christine Baranski, who played Charlotte in the original 1984 Broadway production, and Cynthia Nixon, who played Baranski’s daughter.

Jake joined the party which included Stephen Sondheim, Victor Garber, Robert Caro, Gay Talese and Fran Lebowitz.

This time Cynthia Nixon will play Charlotte with Maggie and Ewan McGregor joining her in the revival that opens at the end of the month. Previews begin this week.

Jake did some reading of his own and for a good cause as others joined him this evening for Words of War to benefit the Headstrong Project for War Veteran's.

Just announced two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson will star opposite Jake  in the American premiere of Constellations. Jake is Roland a beekeeper, Wilson will play Marianne, a physicist.

Wilson will make her Broadway debut in Constellations having previously won Olivier Awards for Anna Christie and A Streetcar Named Desire. She received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for the 2006 television adaptation of Jane Eyre. Other screen credits include Luther and the upcoming Showtime series The Affair.

It bears repeating

Jake's Broadway debut, Constellations, is described as "One relationship. Infinite possibilities."

Jake will take on the role of Roland, the beekeeper, who falls for quantum physicist Marianne.

The story features 100 different scenes in just 65 minutes and presents several alternatives of the couples relationship, exploring the theory of quantum multiverse. In some scenarios, the couple lives happily together while in others they do not even make it to a first kiss.

Seems like Jake's done something like this before....

A suggestion,  none of these looks will work in any multiverse

News-see

Jake made some news over the weekend and Monday in the long and short of it.

Jake's one of the many Hollywood stars who appear in Jay-Z and Beyonce's trailer not for a movie but for their Run Tour.

Sunday Jake turned up all cleaned up taking in  the Broadway hit Newsies on with Ramona and took pictures backstage.

And while they say lights are bright on Broadway

not sure if that's what they say about Hollywood's

 LAMP BABE! - AUS10

Dim bulb - or just gaslighting ?  Check out the guy in the left hand corner!

You set yourself up for that one Austy.  But you do win something

And while Austin futzed with faux lights Jake went back to Bloomies for some shopping (wonder if it was an undies run again) complete with his blue green cosmo combo, beanie and backpack. 

Let's Put on a Show

While it might be Jake's first time working off-Broadway, he has been going to Broadway shows since he was a kid.

Check out this out from a his recent interview with the NY Times:

"Growing up in Los Angeles, with frequent trips to New York to see relatives, Mr. Gyllenhaal was a theatergoer long before he stood on a stage himself. Sitting in nosebleed seats as a boy, he was dazzled by Patti LuPone vamping through the opening number 'I Get a Kick Out of You' in 'Anything Goes' for Lincoln Center Theater; he then promptly fell asleep. From other musicals he graduated to serious drama like 'Angels in America,' though mostly he went to school plays featuring Maggie, now 34."

[ You 've got to admit there's some irony that Jake reminisces of a childhood memory that involves Cole Porter, legend LuPone and Broadway ; ) ]

There isn't a video of LuPone doing the opening of "Anything Goes" but there is one of her doing the closing number for the Tony's.



Makes you wonder if Jake got the chance to catch the latest revival of the show (with Tony Award winning Sutton Foster who just moved on) and stayed awake.



We know that Jake has been and continues to be a big fan of musicals, so when is he going to do one? Come on Jake - you've put up with you wearing that damn hat, when are you finally going to do Damn Yankees? 

Mullet the Gyllenosophy?

The Gatecrasher gossip page of the New York Daily News is reporting:

" If you've ever fantasized about Jake Gyllenhaal rocking out to Whitesnake while swinging his mullet, you may just get your wish. A source tells us the "Brokeback Mountain" star is neck and neck with Zac Efron to play the lead in the big-screen version of Broadway's 'Rock of Ages. ' "






But will Jake be able to look like this:


or end up looking like this:Wait isn't that really Efron in the yellow? He did make a deal with the devil. Wait it could be Chad Michael Murrary from OTH.

Now here's inspiration for the next picture for US Weekly - think she would do it?
Who are we kidding .
Your grammar lesson of the day:
Jake Gyllenhaal rocking out to Whitesnake - One capital letter and the whole thing changes doesn't it?


Could we hope that he channels his inner David Coverdale and follows the song "Here I go again on my own" and loses the blonde? (Austin dancing on top of a Prius - that would be bonus)

Songs from Rock of Ages the Musical:

* "We Built This City" - Starship
* "Nothin' but a Good Time" - Poison
* "Keep on Loving You" - REO Speedwagon
* "Just Like Paradise" - David Lee Roth
* "I Wanna Rock" - Twisted Sister
* "Too Much Time on My Hands" - Styx
* "Renegade" - Styx
* "I Hate Myself for Loving You" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
* "Oh Sherrie" - Steve Perry
* "Waiting for a Girl Like You" - Foreigner
* "Shadows of the Night" - Pat Benatar
* "Don't Stop Believing" - Journey
* "Heaven" - Warrant
* "The Search is Over" - Survivor
* "We're Not Gonna Take It" - Twisted Sister
* "High Enough" - Damn Yankees
* "The Final Countdown" - Europe
* "I Want to Know What Love Is" - Foreigner
* "Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash
* "Here I Go Again" - Whitesnake
* "To Be With You" - Mr. Big
* "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" - Poison
* "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" - Pat Benatar
* "Can't Fight This Feeling" - REO Speedwagon
* "Wanted Dead or Alive" - Bon Jovi
* "Cum on Feel the Noize" - Slade/Quiet Riot
* "Any Way You Want It" - Journey
* "Heat of the Moment" - Asia
* "Sister Christian" - Night Ranger
* "More Than Words" - Extreme





Mullet: Business in the front and party in the back. Yeah that sums up a lot.