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5 Signs that Broadway is becoming more like Vegas.

By On September 21, 2010 · 5 Comments

I've been in New York for just shy of two decades now, and to say things have changed in the theater district is as obvious as saying Wicked is a big hit.  

The transformation of Times Square into a Vegas Strip-like scene seems to have had an effect on what's happening [...]

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If you are a musical theater writer, or want to be one, this blog’s for you.

By On July 8, 2010 · 6 Comments

The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, one of the very few training programs for emerging musical theater writers, is looking for a new crop of students.

And did I mention that it's free?

The famed program, which has churned out the likes of Ahrens & Flaherty (Ragtime [...]

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If everyone is going one way, sometimes it’s smarter to go the other.

By On July 7, 2010 · 1 Comment

The July 4th holiday week on Broadway is always a nail-biter. While there is usually an infusion of show-seeing tourists at the last minute, advance sales for this week are always in the crapper (which is why you probably noticed a bunch of July 4th emails in your inbox [...]

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The Tony Awards beat me to this blog.

By On June 17, 2010 · 3 Comments

The theme of this year's Tony Awards opening number was the current overwhelming number of songs on Broadway stages from the popular musical canon.

Well, dangit, that's what I was going to say!

But it's more than just this year's crop.  While leaving American Idiot a few weeks ago, I walked through [...]

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Honda, The BBC . . . and Broadway?

By On April 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I love it when Broadway gets mentioned in the same sentence as Big Business.

So imagine how I felt when I heard that one of our own got nominated for an honor usually reserved for publicly-held giants like Apple and Nike and so on….

Last week,

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