Tuesday, February 20, 2001 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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wrote on Jan. 26th that John Ritter

Oh come on now... On one hand, Ken Mandelbaum's claims of scooping everyone else is done in fun, but on the other hand it is pretty sad. Lets look at what Ken did yesterday. In his most recent column, (Michael Wiley Takes to the Road) Ken opens with:

    Alan Campbell (Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and on Broadway) will have the Boyd Gaines role in the national tour of Contact. As previously noted, his Girl in a Yellow Dress will by Holly Cruikshank.
Ken takes credit for "breaking" the story of Holly, who happens to be standing by for the role now, not a big surprise by any account. But what Ken fails to mention is that he wrote on Jan. 26th that John Ritter would be taking on the role that he now says Alan Campbell will be playing. What kind of out of control ego does Ken have that he treats his readers like they are idiots? He totally blew by it, pretending that he never even mentioned that Jack Ritter would be playing the role. I suppose that when it is officially announced, Ken will claim that "you read it here first". It is a disservice to the Broadway.com staff and readers and for Ken, who has written about theatre as long as he has, it is kind of sad.

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM

CHICAGO: The Website!

And once again, another major Broadway show has turned over it's website to the designers of Tarantula. Chicago, The Musical, once had an excellent website that was designed and hosted by Pegasus Internet. Theatre.com came in and low-balled the price and can you believe it -- Fran and Barry moved it to save some money. Well it seems as though someone at NAMCO has come to their senses and the site has been moved once more -- to Tarantula. It is scheduled for a relaunch today. Check it out CHICAGO: The Website! Since Tarantula now has Seussical and Chicago, will this mean that the other Fran and Barry websites (Annie Get Your Gun, The BWF Foundation, et al) will follow suit? One can only hope.

SOURCE: www.chicagothemusical.com at 12:00AM

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Reminder: Today at 11:00 am is the Gwen Verdon memorial at the Broadhurst Theatre.

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

Archive Import - Comment

via email: Jessica Stone's name was left out of the list of characters for Design for Living in Randy Gener's short piece on Sat. Her part is small, but it's not THAT small.....

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

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