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Is Cirque sucking up Broadway sales?

By On September 28, 2011 · 8 Comments

Patti LuPone should play Annie Oakley some day, because the woman is the 'straightest shooter' I've ever seen.

When something's buggin' her, whether it's a photographer in a theater, or a circus in Broadway's backyard, she's going to tell you, and everyone around you, exactly what she thinks.  

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Broadway is only as good as the people in it.

By On September 15, 2011 · 11 Comments

When I was a kid I collected baseball cards of my favorite players.

When I was a kid I had posters of my favorite movie stars on my walls.

When I was a kid . . . I didn’t know one Broadway star from another.

One of the greatest marketing tools that other industries have [...]

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The wizards behind our curtains.

By On May 13, 2011 · 1 Comment

Yesterday marked the last day of the annual Broadway League Spring Road Conference, the four-day-long conference for Producers and Presenters from all over the country that’s filled with keynotes, cocktail parties, and lots of Tony lobbying. (This is when a ton of the voters from outside the tri-state see the shows [...]

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Who won the tix to Chicago on Broadway?

By On May 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

You guys had fun casting Chicago, didn't you?

I love fantasy casting.  And maybe, like in Peter Pan, if we all really believe, some of our casting dreams will come true!

Like . . . J.S Fauquet's fantasy of Oprah as Mama Morton in Chicago!  

I loved that idea . [...]

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A star above the title . . . but not how you think.

By On February 11, 2010 · 1 Comment

Last week, in one of the biggest surprise announcements of the year, Elton John and partner David Furnish announced that they were joining the Broadway producing team of Next Fall.  

Before this announcement, many of us on the inside were wondering just how Next Fall, which lacks [...]

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