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Life is an open book test.

By On August 5, 2011 · 8 Comments

On a Friday afternoon during my first few weeks as an Assistant Company Manager at Show Boat back in 1996, two firemen came up to our office at the Gershwin theater and said there was a water main break nearby, and there might not be water servicing the building for the [...]

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Broadway Vocab 101. Why is a flop called a turkey anyway?

By On November 25, 2010 · 3 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving, readers!

It's ironic, don't you think?  We spend this one day pounding back slices of turkey, and we spend the rest of the year trying to avoid producing one.

And why do we call a flop a turkey anyway?  Why not an owl?  Or a swallow?

Well, these are [...]

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When Hal and Stro talk, you should listen.

By On May 31, 2010 · 2 Comments

I was lucky enough to witness the first Hal Prince and Susan Stroman collaboration firsthand, when I was the Associate Company Manager on the mammoth Show Boat at the Gershwin Theater.

It was a genius collaboration.  

The two of them are at it again, co-directing the new musical, Paradise Found, which [...]

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