Thursday, May 17, 2001 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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I listened to Marty Bell last week as he talked about how A Class Act came to be a show and how it was simply a shear feat of will power to produce a show for his friend (Ed Kleban). This is…

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We should salute everyone who has brought us a show this season -- including the writers to the directors to the actors to the designers to the GMs to the Company Managers to the Press Reps …

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2001 BroadwayStars.com Tony Award Contest

You oughta know... that the 2001 BroadwayStars.com Tony Award Contest is now live (unlike The Producers website)...

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March 21

I never imagined such a fallout as we have had post the nomination announcement. The closing notices of the past few days are the kind of events that we have come to expect in the first week of June. Have the producers become more realistic or has the money supply become tighter? I don't know. I mentioned on March 21 of this year that the first victim of the economic downturn was off-Broadway. It now seems that the money crunch has made its way to Broadway. Producers without as much easy access to capital are preserving investor's money for another day (i.e. their next project). The other possibility is that the mega-hit musical, The Producers, is being viewed as such a unstoppable train that it did not make sense for borderline shows to stay open the extra weeks till the Tonys and just lose anyway. I don't really subscribe to that notion. People who work on bringing shows to Broadway, from the new kids like Jordan Roth and Arielle Tepper all the way to legendary pros like Roger Berlind and Fran Weissler, are all dreamers. They believe that their shows can win -- and thank God they believe that.

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

Jed Bernstein said at last year's Tony Awards that Broadway is a community of people who do not know each other. He encouraged everyone in the theatre community to shake one another's hand in a show of support of friendship in the industry. I know that for the most part, this is the norm. Broadway casts support other Broadway casts. The producers are not afraid to call each other to partner or to say hello. The missing part? The fans. I have seen all over the internet newsgroups and message boards fans arguing that a show didn't deserve to be on Broadway and taking those attacks very personal. It's time to pull together as the world will be watching the Broadway community in the coming weeks.

    And I'm here to remind you
    Of the mess you left when you went away
    It's not fair to deny me
    Of the cross I bear that you gave to me
    You, you, you oughta know

      -- Alanis Morissette

A message from the composer of Jane Eyre
With all the complaining about the internet in regards to theatre, I wanted to point out that people are using it to contact groups of people that would have been hard to do before.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:00AM

Mike Myers to Appear on 'Rosie,' May 17

I usually do not link to 'Rosie' show appearances, but I have been thinking for a few weeks, wouldn't Mike Myers be the perfect person to replace Matthew Broderick when he leaves The Producers?

SOURCE: www5.playbill.com at 12:00AM

Broadway Run of 'Seussical' Short-Lived by Jesse McKinley

Less than six months after opening on Broadway in a blaze of hype, "Seussical" will close on Sunday as one of Broadway's biggest all-time money losers

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AM

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