“Broadway Theatre Newsletter is a website publication about Theatre, Theatre People and the Theatre Community.™” Its Mission: This Newsletter helps to develop new audiences and encourages “once-in-a-while” audiences to make theatre-going a regular habit! This website Home Page is your “Table of Contents.” As you scroll down to the end of this page and click on the various items, you will discover articles, topics and theatre information not available elsewhere! At the bottom of the navigation bar on the left is a link entitled “Robust Health.” It is your personal guide to non-traditional healing modalities. Follow the link for interesting information.
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the
last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” —Cree proverb
Green Is Good™
Broadway Goes Green! In collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council, its quest is to raise awareness and implement greener practices within all segments of the industry among producers, theatre owners, designers, managers, etc. who are adopting practices to enhance Broadway’s role as a leader in environmental sustainability. For more information go to: www.GreenBroadway.com / www.nrdc.org/media.
Because producers of Broadway shows cannot sell yesterday’s empty seats tomorrow, a network of major theatre organizations have been created enabling you to get Unlimited Discount Codes for up to 50% discounts off box office prices. Also In addition to musicals and plays your organization may get quantities of discount coupons for opera, ballet and other events at Lincoln Center for your members and employees free of charge.
(click here for the Broadway Theatres Contacts Directory
and Broadway theatres’ seating plans.)
The Royal Family, a comedy about the Cavendishes, a family of theatre stars who go about their glorious business—looking at scripts, running performances and even finding a little time for romance. Based on the real-life Barrymore clan headed by John, Lionel and Ethel.
Bye Bye Birdie— About the superstar Conrad Birdie and the complications that arise when his agent stages a publicity stunt on The Ed Sullivan Show in which he will kiss one lucky girl from Sweet Apple, Ohio, befor being drafted into the army.
Outstanding Play: Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Outstanding Musical: Billy Elliot The Musical
Outstanding Revival of a Play: The Norman Conquests
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: Hair
The Drama Desk Awards promote all New York Theatre on a national basis and help to spread the enjoyment to theatre fans across the country. William Wolf is President, Robert R. Blume is Executive Producer and Les Schecter is General Press Representative.
Ellis Nassour, an entertainment writer, a veteran of the New York Times and
the New York Daily News and the author of Rock Opera: The Creation of Jesus Christ Superstar has published Honky Tonk Angel, The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline, the country singer.
It has been said that Patsy Cline, Honky Tonk Angel, the Musical would be a welcome theatrical event on the Broadway Stage!
E-mail Ellis at: enassour@aol.com.
Visit: www.patsyclinehta.com
The Little Church Around The Corner
In the late 1800s and early 1900s actors were considered the lowest of the low and actresses were looked down upon as prostitutes! In 1870, a famous actor died. His friend asked the church on Madison Avenue and 28th Street NY, where they were members and where their children went to the Sunday School, for funeral sevices. When it became know that the deceased was an actor, funeral services were refused…read what happened next!
During the late 1800s, the United States was still recovering from the devasting effects of the Civil War. The theatrical profession suffered a tremendous setback when President Lincoln was assassinated by an actor, John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln's death rekindled prejudices and the old hatreds. Members of the profession were denied charity and it was not unusual for them to be refused a decent burial. In 1879, a theatrical paper began a campaign for an “Actors Fund.”
Broadway Theatre Newsletter, created in 1976 as a print publication, was transformed in 2001 into a website publication: www.Broadway-Theatre-Newsletter.com
The Broadway League, formerly known as the League of American Theatres and Producers, is the national trade association for the Broadway Theatre industry. Members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters and general managers in New York and more than 240 other North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the theatre industry. Each year League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and on tour across the U.S and Canada.
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The Broadway League, formerly known as the League of American Theatres and Producers, is the national trade association for the Broadway Theatre industry. Members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters and general managers in New York and more than 240 other North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the theatre industry. Each year League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and on tour across the U.S and Canada.
