Friday, December 7, 2001 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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The Music Man Will Shutter on December 30

The Tony-nominated revival of The Music Man will end its run at the Neil Simon Theatre on December 30.

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The Last Five Years to Play at the Minetta Lane

Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years will begin performances at the Minetta Lane Theater on February 12 in preparation for a March 3 opening, according to a production spokesperson.

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Looks Like a KISS Musical Is in the Works

Legendary rock group KISS may be immortalized on the Broadway stage. Bassist Gene Simmons is in the preliminary stages of developing a musical about the band, according to his official webs…

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Pamela Berlin Named New Head of SSDC

Pamela Berlin, a longtime Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) board member, has been named SSDC’s new executive board president. She replaces outgoing president Ted Pappa…

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Sondheim's Sparkler In A Nutmeg Setting

As I watched the Goodspeed Opera House's splendid production of Stephen Sondheim's 1973 gem, "A Little Night Music," I found myself marveling that something so elegant, so delicate, was con…

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'Music Man' tuned off

Tuner won't recoup $8.5 mil investment

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Playwrights Howe, Mee lead Humana lineup

Kentucky slate also features newcomers

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Duo will take 'Five' in new Brown tuner

Two-character musical to begin previews Feb. 12
Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott have been tapped to star in the Gotham premiere of the new Jason Robert Brown musical, "The Last Five Years."
mmmmmmm.... okay.

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MOVED BY 'OCCUPANT' by MICHAEL RIEDEL

ANNE Bancroft will star in "Occupant," a yet another new play by the prolific Edward Albee, this spring at the Signature Theater Co.

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Hartford revises sked

Wilson postpones mainstage world premiere of 'Diosa'

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Burton, Pine laureled for 'Classic' perfs

Thesps to receive Joe A. Callaway awards
Kate Burton and Larry Pine have received this year's Joe A. Callaway awards, which are presented by Actors' Equity Foundation for the best performance by a male and female actor in a "classic" play (written before 1920) in the Gotham area.

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NEW REED ON POE by MARY HUHN

AS soon as the curtain rises on "POEtry," the new Lou Reed-Robert Wilson project at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the singers break out into shockingly Broadway-like song: "These are the s…

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'MOULIN ROUGE' NABS FIRST OF SEASON'S FILM AWARDS by LOU LUMENICK

THE epic musical "Moulin Rouge," with Nicole Kidman, has won the Oscar season's equivalent of the New Hampshire primary, being named Best Film yesterday by the National Board of Review.
Just for Jennifer.

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ONLY IN NEW YORK, KIDS by CLIVE BARNES

WE at The Post take care of our own. So when one of our gossip divas, the one and only Cindy Adams, made her Broadway debut Tuesday night, she had her own drama critic on hand to cheer - or…

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Preliminary Injunction Against Rudin in Gold! Case

The first battle in the legal war between producer Scott Rudin and Broadway powerhouses Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman seems to have been won by Sondheim and Weidman.

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Ball Aims for Fall 2002 Broadway Birth

Broadway.com has learned that Ball, the new musical that takes place in the world of New York City street-ball, is aiming for a fall Broadway birth.

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Mamma Mia! on Top at Gypsy of the Year

It was announced yesterday at the 13th Annual Gypsy of the Year Competition that $2,037,922 was raised for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

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De Niro Plans a Film Festival in TriBeCa by JESSE McKINLEY

Robert De Niro and the film producer Jane Rosenthal say they intend to bring some economic and emotional relief to the beleaguered southern tip of Manhattan.
Oh no! Now we are even losing theatre-columnists to film!

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Looking for the Light in Cabaret Songs by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Pop standards evoke a comforting continuity between now and then, an assurance that in a climate overwhelmingly devoted to disposable novelty, some things are made to last.

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Ex-Chief of Sotheby's Is Convicted of Price Fixing by RALPH BLUMENTHAL and CAROL VOGEL

A. Alfred Taubman, principal owner of Sotheby's, was convicted of conspiring with rival Christie's to fix fees charged to auction house sellers.
Those Sotheby's bastards! Fixing prices between themselves and competitors! That never happens on Broadway! When one theatre owner raises their prices, or adds a fee, the others just don't immediately follow suit...

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All that Chat

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