'Thanks a mil to Tony 

Awards drop green on Great White Way
Broadway got its typical $1 million spike from last week's Tony Awards. Up $1,066,619, or 8.09%, from the previous session, box office receipts for 31 shows came in at $14,250,106. That figure rests between 2001's $13.72 million and 2000's $14.33 million for this session.

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'Marty' sings in Boston

Musical highlights Huntington season

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Stars join Cape lineup

Season opens with 'Mass Appeal'

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Memorable holiday on B'Way

B.O. gets rise from long weekend

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B'way B.O. boom busts

Total gross for the entire season at $642,545,026
After 10 straight years of B.O. records, terrorism and recession-buffeted Broadway did not make it 11 with the 2001-02 season. Then again, Broadway did not lay the proverbial egg. This was the season, after all, when 23 shows during the week of Sept. 10-16 grossed just $3,647,734.

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Road biz survives trying year

Trio of hot performers helps offset post-9/11 doldrums

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Inside Move: Friedkin makes a legit connection

Helmer trades lenses for libretti in new gig

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Clear Channel set to bow theater mag

Show People preps for September bow

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Dodger plans Off B'way complex, new theaters

Ende promises five new legit houses by next September
Dodger/Stage Holding, the New York-based theatrical outfit behind such productions as "Urinetown" and the revival of "Into the Woods," is moving ahead with plans to build five new luxury Off Broadway theaters with a central box office and restaurant at the Worldwide Plaza.
Didn't Riedel break this story in January? Me thinks so. It will be interesting to see what contracts Dodger will operate under in this space.

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Rux wins arts prize

Playwright-performer also selected for NYFA fellowship

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Tony finishing touch

Except for opening number most details done

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'Elephant' packs trunks for upcoming closure

Revival run to end June 9

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Rees goes Wilde for musicalized 'Man'

Tuner reunites 'Ragtime' team
Roger Rees will star in the musical version of "A Man of No Importance," based on the 1994 Albert Finney feature about a gay bus conductor who is an avid reader of Oscar Wilde. The title refers to Wilde's play "A Woman of No Importance."

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Kushner, Gibson win Obies

Scribes feted while Wolfe, Zimmerman nab helming kudos

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Inside Move: 'Sweet' producers plead for success

Letters goes out to Tony voters

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Playwright to helm pic.

Marsden, Speedman set to topline adaptation

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Playhouse picks Busch's 'Flowers'

Adaptation to highlight 2003 season in Pasadena
Charles Busch's new adaptation of the 1954 Broadway musical "House of Flowers" highlights the 2003 season at the Pasadena Playhouse.

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Heche eyes B'way's 'Proof' by Robert Holler

Anne Heche is in negotiations to replace Jennifer Jason Leigh in David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Proof," currently running at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York.
From Mary-Louise Parker to Jennifer Jason Leigh to... Anne Heche? Okay...

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<cite>Sweeney Todd</cite> review by Charles Isherwood

Even given the knowledge of their horrific provenance, it might be hard to resist the meat pies of Christine Baranski's thoroughly tasty Mrs. Lovett in the Kennedy Center's new "Sweeney Todd…

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B'way breaks a leg

B.O., attendance both take upward swing

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'Democracy' grows gabby

New York Sen. Schumer to kick off discussion

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Sondheim talks to PBS

Legendary legit man chats up net

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Character actor George DiCenzo dies by Rachel Abrams

Thesp portrayed prosecutor in 'Helter Skelter'

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Moore to join TCG

Legit News: Tapped as managing director of legit development -- Kevin E. Moore has been tapped as managing director of legit development org Theater Communications Group.

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LaBelle joins 'Fela!'

Legit News: Musical to close in January -- Broadway tuner "Fela!" will play out its final weeks with Patti LaBelle in the cast.

SOURCE: Variety at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑