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Saturday, January 19, 2002
 Fresh Face: Spencer Kayden by Beth Stevens
 DA THROWS BOOK AT 'GOOD THIEF' by LAURA ITALIANO A Manhattan grand jury has indicted accused Robin Hood embezzler John Loan on charges of stealing $3 million from a Midtown money management firm - meaning he faces up to 25 years prison if convicted.
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 THEATER REVIEW | 'FLICKER': The Freedom (and Limits) of Fudging Boundaries By NEIL GENZLINGER No description of "Flicker," the production now at Performance Space 122, is likely to convey its ragged, witty lunacy.
 Sullivan and Baitz Plan to Retool Unknowns at Taper
 Little Eyolf Gets Rare Staging at OB's Ibsen Series, Feb. 5
 Sex Goes 'Round: Comic Circle Returns to NYC Feb. 15-March 26
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Friday, January 18, 2002
 Boston Globe: Union targets four small theater companies
 Peter Filichia's Diary A new production of Hobson�s Choice prompts Filichia to take another look at the play�s musical version, Walking Happy.
 Follow Spot People are talking about the casting of Anne Hathaway in Carnival, the announced closing of Summer of �42, and the arrest of record producer John Loan (a.k.a. John Jerome).
 Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts As The Fantasticks fades into the dusk, the show�s creators and an original cast member are there to laugh, cry, and say farewell.
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 Oliviers reward revivals 'Kate' leads noms with nine, 'Lady' follows with 8 Revivals are clearly the rage at the Laurence Olivier Awards, with familiar titles dominating the nominations for London legit in 2001.
 Union seeks equity Thesp union talks address B'way salaries
 WINTER WHITE WAY SALE by MICHAEL RIEDEL IF you lower ticket prices, they will come."Seasons of Savings" - Broadway's first industry-wide winter sale - is turning out to be quite a success story.
 Light Touch On A Dark Classic William Atherton, a veteran character actor with a knack for playing obnoxious and annoying antagonists ("Ghostbusters," "Die Hard"), gets his comeuppance in "The Castle," an entertaining and occasionally humorous adaptation of Franz Kafka's last, unfinished novel.
 On Stage and Off: Coming Up on the Off Side
 Theater Review | 'The Castle': A Kafkaesque Bureaucracy (Literally)
 Critic's Notebook: Resonance From the Violent, Unsettled World of 80 Years Ago
 A Brit for Bialy? by Ken Mandelbaum
 Four More For LCT's Morning's At Seven Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Piper Laurie and Christopher Lloyd have joined the cast of the upcoming Lincoln Center Theater revival of Paul Osborn�s Morning's at Seven, according to The New York Times.
 Douglas & Belack to Star in Off-B'way Grace Illeana Douglas and Doris Belack will headline the off-Broadway production of Trish Vradenburg�s Surviving Grace, according to The New York Times.
 Pinchot & Burns Star in Stones In His Pockets Tour
 2002 Olivier Awards Nominations Announced Nominations for the 26th Annual Laurence Olivier Awards were announced earlier today. This year finds revivals of My Fair Lady and Kiss Me, Kate scoring high.
 Starry Cast Set for Carnival at Encores! Broadway.com has learned that Anne Hathaway, Debbie Gravitte, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Douglas Sills will all appear in the upcoming Encores! production of Carnival.
 Scott Schwartz to Direct Kreiger-Russell Kept in CA in April
 Henry, Lloyd, Hagerty, Laurie Added to LCT's Seven Cast
 Sullivan-Hirsch-Vereen Rappaport Looking for April Bway Bow
 Cy Coleman Sings and Plays Jazz Waltzes and Show Tunes at Carnegie Hall Jan. 18
 Jan. 18-23 Readings Hoped to be a Blessing in Disguise for Off Bway in Spring
 Dawn Powell Festival Begins with Jig Saw, Jan. 18-Feb. 3
 Director Jacques Levy Returns with Bridge in Scarsdale, Jan. 18
 Deaf Actress Terrylene Is In the Now at Santa Monica Playhouse Jan. 18-Feb. 17
 Ensler's Necessary Targets Variety Arts Beginning Feb. 14
 Tony-Winner Manahan Returns to NYC in Irish Two-Hander, Matchmaker, Feb. 5-March 31
 Arthur Miller Meets Frank Rich at 92nd St. Y, Jan. 21
 Lorinda Lisitza Sings Weill and Songs in the Style of Weill Jan. 18-29 in NYC
 Will New York be a Lucky Town for New Springsteen Opera Project?
 PHOTO CALL: Brava to the Diva: Feldshuh, Buckley Congratulate Cook
 PHOTO CALL: Lincoln Center Regulars in for a Night of Mostly Sondheim
 Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Opens Jan. 20 in NYC
 Private Lives, Kate Top 2002 Olivier Awards Nominations
 The Castle Opens at Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, Jan. 17
 Report: Producers Mulling Playing Pantages
 Classical Theater of Harlem Stages Wright's Native Son, Feb. 1-24
 UK's New Boy in Development for Fall OB Showcase; Readings Jan. 17
 The Guys Returns to Bat Theatre, Jan. 17-26
 Summer of `42 Won't See Spring of `02: Off-Bway Musical Closes Jan. 27
 Equity to Seek Ban on Non Profit Roundabout and LCT Broadway Transfers
 PHOTO CALL: Pullman Gets Reuhl's Goat in New Albee
 PHOTO CALL: He Made the Goat, But Is She Sylvia?
 Daniel Sullivan to Helm Moscow for Possible Fall 2002 Bway Bow
 Bway-Bound Smell of the Kill Still Casting and Coordinating
 PHOTO CALL: 17,162 Shows Old: Jones and Schmidt Bid Good-Bye to Fantasticks
 PHOTO CALL: What Gallo: F. Murray Abraham Was Among Former Fantasticks
 Grizzard, Ashley, Gallagher Reading Helps Vidal's Latest Get its Sea Legs
 New Musical, Saving Anne, Gets Jan. 22 Reading in NYC
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Thursday, January 17, 2002
 Test 'Drive' planned for Boss rock opera Prod'n skedded for early March If Abba can have its own musical, why not the Boss? The songs of Bruce Springsteen have been fashioned into a rock 'n' roll opera called "Drive All Night."
 Union seeks equity Thesp union talks address B'way salaries
 Road grosses Legit biz hangs tough
 CHARITY BEGAN AT HOME FOR 'ROBIN HOOD': PROBE
 PALS CALL 'AIDS THIEF' SAINT JOHN
 Peter Filichia's Diary Filichia re-encounters Sidney Armus, who no longer lives over a pretzel factory.
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 MOLLY BOWLES 'EM OVER By CLIVE BARNES IT is a very happily - and naughtily - reinvigorated "Cabaret," with a new Sally Bowles in the sleazily glamorous person of Molly Ringwald and a new Emcee starkly portrayed by Raul Esparza, that is knocking 'em dead at Studio 54.
 Ringwald Bowles 'Em Over - Ex-teen goddess' appeal puts new life in 'Cabaret' By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ Molly Ringwald has made "Cabaret" audiences forget Brooke Shields. And Gina Gershon. And Natasha Richardson and all the other Sally Bowles in the long-running Broadway musical revival.
 Starry Cast Set for Carnival at Encores!
 Summer of '42 Closing; Targets Next at Variety Arts
 Equity Takes On Use of LORT Contracts on B'way
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Wednesday, January 16, 2002
 'Cats' scratches out last perf in West End Play's anniversary also its swan song "Cats" is coming to the end of yet another of its nine lives. The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Cameron Mackintosh musical will finish its West End run at the New London Theater on May 11, the show's 21st birthday.
 Revamp ignites Royal rumpus RSC battles critics over its plans for Barbican, Stratford
 Franklin joining Gersh legit dep't Agent ankles WMA, joins Hagan's team
 APA percentery winding down its Gotham office Arts agency shutters, agents ankle
 Met opera, UCONN join hands Collaboration hopes to improve opera education in U.S.
 Cyber Stage: 'The Crucible' Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" returns to Broadway on March 7 at the Virginia Theater. The 1953 drama about the Salem witch hunts stars Liam Neeson, Laura Linney and Brian Murray.
 Jerome Records Founder Charged with Grand Larceny Jerome Records founder John Jerome, who is also known as John Loan, has been charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
 Barbara Cook's Mostly Sondheim Receives Raves Barbara Cook�s Mostly Sondheim opened its limited run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater last night.
 Chicago Critics Weigh in on Pre-Broadway Sweet Smell
 London Production of Cats to Close May 11 Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running feline musical, will close in London on May 11, which is the show's 21st birthday.
 Photo Op: Barbara Cook in SONDHEIM - Photos by Bruce Glikas
 Photo Op: Meet THE GOAT Stars - Photos by Bruce Glikas
 The Musical Race by Ken Mandelbaum
 The Musical Race by Ken Mandelbaum
 Ron Urbinati Directs Bromley's Syndrome Off-Bway, Jan. 16-Feb. 9
 Goulet Will Join Weisslers' South Pacific Tour March 19
 Jerome Records' Chief Arrested in Alleged Embezzlement Scheme; Label Celebrates Cabaret
 Donna Murphy Is Helen at Public Theater, Feb. 26-March 31
 La Lupe Opens Anew at Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre in NYC, Jan. 15
 PHOTO CALL: Murray's Hobson Chooses the Atlantic Jan. 10
 PHOTO CALL: A Clear Choice: Murray, Plimpton Star in Warren's Hobson's
 Broadway Grosses: January 7-13
 Meryle Secrest, Rodgers Biographer, on PBS' 'Theater Talk,' Jan. 18 and 25
 Kevin Gray is the Once and Future King, at Paper Mill, April 3-May 19
 London Production of Cats to Close on May 11
 Kathleen Butler to Fill in for Bancroft at Occupant Saturday Matinees
 TFANA's Cymbeline Arrives in New York Jan. 15
 Refugees Struggle in MTC's Further Than the Furthest Thing, Beginning Jan. 15
 Glover, Light and Woodard Experience Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings OB, Jan. 15
 Off-Bway's CSC Unleashes Bell's Monster, Jan. 15-Feb. 17
 What Comes Naturally: Wopat Makes NYC Cabaret Debut at Arci's Place Jan. 15-26
 The Civilians Plays Canard, Canard, Goose at HERE, Jan. 15-Feb. 17
 Cabaret's Steve Ross Sings for Women's Project Benefit Jan. 15
 Follow Spot The music of the great Cy Coleman is celebrated in a brand-new CD and a concert at Carnegie Hall.
 Mostly Sondheim Reviewed by David Finkle
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 THEATER REVIEW | 'CABARET': Still Licentious, but Freshly Vulnerable Too By BEN BRANTLEY Sally Bowles may be as louche and licentious as ever, but with Molly Ringwold in the role she is also bringing out the parental instincts in her audiences.
 Cabaret (01/02) by Ken Mandelbaum
 The Show 'Cats' Nears Final Meow in London By JESSE McKINLEY
 WE 'SMELL' TROUBLE By MICHAEL RIEDEL CHICAGO - "You go on the road to get a progress report. We got a B-minus and now we've got to get it to an A."
 Murphy Leads A-List Cast in Helen at the Public
 Bway's Allergist's Wife Celebrates 500th Show at Jan. 16 Matinee
 New Musical, Saving Anne, Targets Summer Reading in NYC
 TDF's New Development Director is a Joy
 Off-Bway's Lark Meets Rosenthal's Bromius Beaujolais Jan. 16-21
 PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Craig Carnelia
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Tuesday, January 15, 2002
 Sweet Smell of Success Review by Chris Jones
 Chicago Tribune: `Sweet Smell' can't claim success--yet by Richard Christiansen, Tribune chief critic
 Chicago Sun-Times: Not a complete 'Success' BY HEDY WEISS THEATER CRITIC
 Season trips up B'way, Grosses dip 9% Broadway grosses were down 8.8% last week, falling by a little over $1 million to $10,915,035.
 London Production of Cats to Close May 11 Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running feline musical, will close in London on May 11, which is the show's 21st birthday.
 Daisy Eagan Is One of Bravo's It Girls
 Tony Winner Bill McCutcheon Dies at Age 77 Tony winner Bill McCutcheon died of natural causes on Wednesday, January 9, according to The Los Angeles Times. He was 77.
 COPS: MAN STOLE FOR AIDS LOVER
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 THEATER REVIEW | 'MOSTLY SONDHEIM': Barbara Cook Takes Sondheim in Fond Stride By BRUCE WEBER Barbara Cook is 74, but if you closed your eyes and just listened, you'd never know it.
 SHE SINGS & THE EARTH STANDS STILL By CLIVE BARNES SHE sails onto the Vivian Beaumont stage like a radiantly welcoming hostess - happy and only slightly surprised to find her guests assembled and waiting. Waiting, moreover, with bated breath.
 Cook's 'Sondheim' is Sublime by Howard Kissel
 Barbara Cook: Mostly Sondheim review by Charles Isherwood
 Mostly Sondheim review by Ken Mandelbaum
 TFANA's Cymbeline Arrives in New York Jan. 15
 Cy Coleman Sings! "It Started With a Dream" CD Has Show Tunes and More, In Stores Jan. 15
 Refugees Struggle in MTC's Further From the Furthest Thing, Beginning Jan. 15
 Glover, Light and Woodard Experience Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicing OB, Jan. 15
 What Comes Naturally: Wopat Makes NYC Cabaret Debut at Arci's Place Jan. 15-26
 Lawrence Ends Maternity Leave & Returns to Urinetown
 PBS to Broadcast The Women on May 29
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Monday, January 14, 2002
 Would I Sing for I Never Sang? by Peter Filichia
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 'Fantasticks' Will Trip the Lights No More by JAMES BARRON After 17,162 performances, "The Fantasticks" closed on Sunday night. Now theatergoers can only try to remember. And to stop spelling words that end in "istic" with a K.
 Theater Review | 'Hobson's Choice': Tough Victorian Defeats Dad and Gets Her Man
 METRO MATTERS Leaving Art to Critics, Not Mayors
 Donald Johnston, Arranger for Musicals, Dies at 57
 Greenberg plays usher in SCR venue Opening night will culminate a month of opening celebrations South Coast Repertory will close its second theater and usher in its new 336-seat venue with two new plays by Richard Greenberg, the company's most produced contemporary playwright.
 Canon to open 'War Letters' World premiere based on Carroll's bestselling book
 'Women' taped for PBS Roundabout Theater Company's production to air May 29
 Durable, & Funny To Boot It's a 1915 comedy about an 1880s family that's mustier than a boot-shop cellar. Yet this latest revival of Harold Brighouse's "Hobson's Choice" is a delightfully entertaining period piece highlighted by sharp and witty performances.
 ROBBINS' TWOFER BY NYCB by CLIVE BARNES JEROME Robbins may have been a king on Broadway but with New York City Ballet he was never more than a crown prince. But what a crown prince!
 Remember Me - in Light: At the Final Performance of The Fantasticks
 Seldes Spends A Very Special Jan. 14 Raising Funds for the Acting Company at Salon
 Report: Dodgers Eyeing Movie Complex for OB Theatre
 Hamlisch and Carnelia Penning Songs for Bullets Over Broadway, the Musical
 Traffic Light Wunderkind Creates Comedy of Eros, Jan. 25-Feb. 17 Off-Bway
 It's Schwartz, Schwartz and More Schwartz on Coulter Cabaret CD
 Actor-Playwright Vaughn McBride Remembered Jan. 14 in Manhattan
 Drama Desk Holds Press Agents Panel, Jan. 14
 Roundabout's Women Bid Farewell Jan. 13; PBS to Show it All May 29
 OB's Atlantic Chooses Hobson's Choice, Jan. 13-Feb. 10
 Attenborough leaves RSC for top job at Almeida
 Applications And Guidelines Now Available For Kennedy Center Fund For New American Plays Year 2002 Grants
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Sunday, January 13, 2002
 The Fantasticks Bids Farewell, Jan. 13, After 42 Years on Sullivan Street
 Roundabout's Women Bid Farewell Jan. 13; PBS to Show it All May 29
 Burton's Hedda Ends It All Jan. 13; Last Show Actors' Fund Benefit
 Death, Where Is Thy Closing? Jan. 13, McKellen and Mirren Dance Away
 Simon's 45 Seconds to Exit From Broadway, Jan. 13
 Welcome to the Night: Sweet Smell of Success Opens in Chi Jan. 13; Bway Begins Feb. 23
 John Patrick Shanley's Where's My Money? Ends Jan. 13 at MTC
 What Does Realistic Mean on the Stage, Anyway? by Benedict Nightingale
 MEE PUTS SEX AT CENTER STAGE By CLIVE BARNES When it comes to sex, there is nothing on stage as lurid as in the movies. Last year, that great English actor Mark Rylance, who appears later this year at BAM with his own Globe Theatre's splendid production of "Cymbeline," could be seen in the film "Intimacy" in an explicit act of heterosexual oral sex.
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2007-08 Broadway Season
June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)
July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]
Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)
Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]
Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)
Oct 18 - Pygmalion (AA)
Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)
Nov 1 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rodgers)
Nov 4 - Rock 'N' Roll (Jacobs)
Nov 8 - Young Frankenstein (Hilton)
Nov 9 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (St. James)
Nov 10: Local One Strike Begins
Nov 28: Local One Strike Ends
Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)
Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]
Dec 4 - August: Osage County (Imperial) [Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Steppenwolf]
Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)
Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)
Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]
Jan 10 - The Little Mermaid (Lunt)
Jan 15 - The 39 Steps (AA)
Jan 17 - November (Barrymore)
Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)
Feb 21 - Sunday In The Park With George (54)
Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)
Mar 6 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst) [Stephen C. Byrd]
Mar 9 - In The Heights (Rodgers)
Mar 27 - Gypsy (St. James)
Mar 29 - Macbeth (Lyceum)
Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)
Apr 17 - A Catered Affair (Kerr) [Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment / Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson and Daryl Roth]
Apr 24 - Cry Baby (Marquis)
Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)
Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)
May 1 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AA)
May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)
May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)
TBA - Godspell
2008-09 Broadway Season
Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)
Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)
Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]
Talked About Not Scheduled Yet
TBA - 50 Words
TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)
TBA - American Buffalo
TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]
TBA - The Beard of Avon [NYTW]
TBA - Being There [Permut]
TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]
TBA - Billy Elliot
TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]
TBA - Breath of Life [Fox]
TBA - Busker Alley [Margot Astrachan, Robert Blume, Kristine Lewis, Jamie Fox, Joanna Kerry & Heather Duke]
TBA - Broomhilda
TBA - Bye Bye Birdie [Niko]
TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]
TBA - Camelot
TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]
TBA - Catch Me If You Can
TBA - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Bob and Harvey Weinstein]
TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]
TBA - Designing Women [Alexis]
TBA - Don Juan DeMarco [New Line]
TBA - Dreamgirls [Creative Battery]
TBA - Duet
TBA - Equus
TBA - Ever After [Adam Epstein]
TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]
TBA - Farragut North [Richards]
TBA - Father of the Bride
TBA - The Female Of The Species (TBA)
TBA - Fool For Love (AA) [Roundabout]
TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers
TBA - Golden Boy
TBA - Harmony [Guiles, Karslake, Smith, Fishman]
TBA - Hitchcock Blonde
TBA - The Importance Of Being Earnest
TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]
TBA - Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train (Circle)
TBA - Josephine [Waissman]
TBA - Leap of Faith
TBA - A Little Princess [Ettinger, Dodger]
TBA - Midnight Cowboy [MGM]
TBA - The Minstrel Show - Kander and Ebb and Stroman
TBA - Moonstruck [Pittelman, Azenberg]
TBA - Mourning Becomes Electra [Haber, Boyett]
TBA - Monsoon Wedding
TBA - The Night of the Hunter
TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]
TBA - Orphans
TBA - Pal Joey [Platt]
TBA - Paper Doll
TBA - The Paris Letter
TBA - The Philadelphia Story
TBA - Peter Pan
TBA - Porgy and Bess [Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh, Panter, Tulchin/Bartner]
TBA - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
TBA - The Princess Bride
TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]
TBA - Poe the Musical
TBA - Rain Man [MGM]
TBA - Robin Hood
TBA - Secondhand Lions
TBA - South Pacific
TBA - Speed-the-Plow
TBA - Stalag 17
TBA - Starry Messenger
TBA - Syncopation
TBA - A Tale Of Two Cities
TBA - Torch Song Trilogy
TBA - Turn of the Century
TBA - West Side Story
TBA - The Wall [Weinstein, Mottola, Waters]
TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]
TBA - The Wiz [Dodger]
TBA - Zanna [Dalgleish]
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