Sunday, March 10, 2002 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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website for LAST FIVE YEARS

Can you spot this major faux pas on the website for LAST FIVE YEARS? Perhaps it is mistakes like this that keep lawyers busy...

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

When Your Characters Are Speechless, Let 'Em Sing!

By NICHOLAS HYTNER
The new musical "Sweet Smell of Success" is playing in previews to audiences who seem mostly not to know the 1957 movie on which it is based.
This should be required reading for anyone in the business.

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

Archive Import - Comment

It was 41 on 44th yesterday... Nathan's vocal problems got a Presidential reprive yesterday as George Bush Sr. [41] came to see The Producer's yesterday for the matinee. It's amazing how a VIP can speedup the healing process... We wonder if Mr. Lane will do this week's matinees as well. Surely in this city we can find a VIP or two with as much clout as a former president to come to the last matinees?

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

Halle Berry, Bruised and Beautiful, Is on a Mission

By DANA KENNEDY
Halle Berry could become the first African-American to win the Academy Award for best actress � for her performance as a worn-out waitress in "Monster's Ball."

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Arts Awaken After the Taliban

By ANDREW SOLOMON
After the depredations of the Taliban and the devastation of war in Afghanistan, an optimistic and exuberant artistic community emerges.
Slide Show

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More Than a Bright Golden Haze

When he got a letter saying that Trevor Nunn of Britain's National Theatre wanted to direct "Oklahoma!", Ted Chapin, president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, was at first unimpr…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AM

TRYING TO GET AT WHAT'S REAL ON STAGE

By CLIVE BARNES
There's a subtle difference between naturalism and realism in the arts, always worth considering in matters theatrical.

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'KISSING' FRIENDS

By LOU LUMENICK
Let's say you're a nice, straight, Jewish actress from Connecticut fed up with the shallow sitcom roles you've been playing. What do you do?
I've said it before, keep you eye on Jennifer Westfeldt, she is going to be huge. [Jennifer was the best Julie Jordan I've ever seen.]

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TOTALLY STRAIGHT - OR ARE THEY?

Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen are both straight, but each had youthful attractions to women.

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CAN THEY 'PRODUCE'?

By CHIP DEFFAA
Here come the replacements. It's one of the toughest acts to follow in one of the great successes in Broadway history, but when the blockbusting duo of "The Producers," Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, finally pack it in next Sunday, a new pair will take center stage.

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