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...

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

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

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM

Tunes and Tomes

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

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM

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.

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

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.

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

Sondheim, Rudin in 'Gold!' feud

Judge hands down preliminary injunction

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

Broadway Grosses

B.O. off after holiday

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

Bancroft back on boards

Thesp to star in Albee's 'Occupant'

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

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.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AM

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.

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

Will Jackie Mason Star in 45 Seconds?

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

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM

A New Stomp Film is in the Works

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

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM

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…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM

CDs: Norma's Back at Last by Ken Mandelbaum

Howard McGillin's CD is reviewed also.

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM

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.

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