Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Blind Item Received:

    What Looong running Off-Broadway show (with no plans to be made into a movie) has started charging a $1 Facility Charge per ticket? Yet there's no notice to that effect on the price signs in the lobby of the theatre. Guess September 11th didn't make them blue.
I didn't realize that the facility charge was to fix up a theatre that the production trashes every night...

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OFF, but related: A New Industry Threat: CD's Made From Webcasts by NEIL STRAUSS

As the debate over Napster raged, Andrew Rasiej secured authorized deals that might upset record labels even more, because there's little they can do about them.

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CDs: Norma's Back at Last by Ken Mandelbaum

Howard McGillin's CD is reviewed also.

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Broadway Grosses: Merry Week for Musicals

Big budget musicals are keeping Broadway strong. Broadway box offices grossed $12,830,718 last week and the top five grossing shows (all musicals) provided a whopping $4,756,538 of that tal…

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A New Stomp Film is in the Works

Stomp, the long-running off-Broadway experience, may be coming to a movie theater near you.

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Will Jackie Mason Star in 45 Seconds?

Will Jackie Mason take the lead in touring and London productions of 45 Seconds From Broadway?

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LET THEM EAT SNAPE! by MICHAEL RIEDEL

ALAN Rickman is trying to balance the demands of the "Harry Potter" franchise with his desire to do a Broadway show in the spring.

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Biltmore In a Comeback Role

The Biltmore Theater on W. 47th St. and Eighth Ave., abandoned since 1987, gets a new life today at 11 a.m. with a groundbreaking for the new Manhattan Theater Club.

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Bancroft back on boards

Thesp to star in Albee's 'Occupant'

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Broadway Grosses

B.O. off after holiday

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Sondheim, Rudin in 'Gold!' feud

Judge hands down preliminary injunction

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Manhattan Theater Club sets plans for Biltmore

Venue to be devoted to new plays and tuners, board chairman sez
And the renovated Biltmore Theater on West 47th Street will make it three. The Manhattan Theater Club will announce today the finalization of its plans for its first permanent home on Broadway.

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Technology Briefing: INTERNET USENET ARCHIVE IS POSTED ON WEB

Google finally opens up the Deja archive, plus more. This means that all those old R.A.T.M. classic posts are back.

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Tunes and Tomes

A pair of exhibits and a pair of books celebrate Al Hirschfeld, America's "characterist" extraordinaire.

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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Liev Schreiber meets Iago in the Public Theater production of Shakespeare’s Othello.

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Off-B'way's Tintypes Closes Early

The Melting Pot Theatre Company production of Tintypes will end its run at the McGinn Cazale Theatre on December 16. The musical was originally scheduled to play through December 30.

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Sh-K-Boom Presents a Holiday Benefit Concert

On December 12 at the Cutting Room, Sh-K-Boom Records will present the Second Annual Holiday Sh-K-Boom Room Concert.

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Paper Doll Eyes Spring Broadway Bow

Producer Randall L. Wreghitt is moving ahead with his plans to bring Mark Hampton and Barbara J. Zitwer’s Paper Doll to Broadway this season.

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Former Long Wharf topper makes New Haven return

Hughes to helm 'Vacation' at Yale

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Handful of tuners drive Broadway B.O.

Four musicals account for nearly a third of all receipts

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'Stomp' livin' large

Walden takes 'Pulse' of giant-screen pic
Walden Media has partnered with film and theater producer James Stern ("The Producers"), Harriet Newman Leve ("Hedda Gabler"), and Don and Steve Kempf of Giant Screen Films ("Michael Jordan: To the Max") to turn the percussion-heavy legit show "Stomp" into a large-format film titled "Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey."

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