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Producing Broadway shows ain't cheap.  And typically, the minimal investment is $10,000 at the lowest.  Most shows have units of investment in the neighborhood of $25,000, and some even as high as $100,000. The Broadway revival of Godspell is trying something different.  They want this to be a "community-investment" show, meaning that you can buy a "unit" of the show for … Read More

I was very excited (and somewhat surprised) to see in my RSS feed that the tour for "American Idiot" (the Green Day musical) is going to kick off today. Reading fail.

Why, oh why, oh for the love of God WHY does the mass media cater to the paranoid and prudish sensabilities of society's more paranoid and prude? Read about the theatre ad that the Philadelphia Inquirer was to skittish to run.

My predictions (and really, they're just guesses) are in yellow….. Thoughts:  Seems like there is a trend developing on Broadway in which the line between a "play" and a "musical" is getting blurred.  Take, for example, the Best Original Score category — traditionally a category for musicals.  And yet, two of the four nominees are for productions which the Tony committee deems … Read More

I'm actually a member of the Drama League (and I get to vote!), so I have to pay attention to the nominees, which were just announced by Kelsey Grammer and Bebe Neuworth. Full list below the fold

Well, why not? A Broadway-aimed musical is being developed from the novel "Dances With Wolves," which tells the culture-clash story of a Civil War-era U.S. Army lieutenant who bonds with the native Sioux nation as white people push into the American Dakota frontier. Matt Murphy, a producer on Broadway's Memphis, Impressionism and Thurgood, told Playbill.com that he has acquired the … Read More

Not very surprising for those of us who have seen it, but Next To Normal has taken the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  Kind of cool that it happened to a musical.  It's not unheard of that a musical wins, but it is infrequent (Rent, Sunday in the Park with George, and A Chorus Line are the last three musicals to have one … Read More

Here's how: The call is out to Next to Normal fans everywhere. Submit your own video and you could become one of the faces of the Next to Normal mashup. Over the next few weeks, they’ll post the music (piano tracks, courtesy of Mr. Kitt) and lyrics to four Next to Normal songs on nexttonormal.com. Download the material and the … Read More

Wouldn't you like to know what the stage looks like from the seats you bought? The technology is here.  A company called Seats3D will give you a look at the stadium, playing field, stage, etc from the tickets you have purchased. Sadly, there are only a few (Japanese) theaters online at the moment; you have a better chance with sporting venues.  But hopefully, … Read More