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“Broadway Theatre Newsletter is a website publication about Theatre, Theatre People and the Theatre Community.™”
Its Mission: The 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!
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Royale Theatre has been renamed the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Plymouth Theatre has been renamed the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
(click here for the story)
Ellis Nassour, an entertainment writer, a veteran of the New York Times and
the New York Daily News and the author of Rock O pera: The Creation of Jesus Christ Superstar has published Honky Tonk Angel, The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline, the country singer.
Patsy Cline the first female country singer to cross the line into pop and blues and the first to be named to the Country Music Hall of Fame was earthy, sexy and vivacious. She soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just 30 short years. She broke all the boys club barriers of Nashville’s music business in the 1950s and brought a new Nashville sound to the nation with her pop hits and torch ballads.
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
Shows on Broadway
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 free of charge.
(click here for the Broadway Theatres Contacts Directory
and Broadway theatres’ seating plans.)
Boeing-Boeing, a comedy about a Parisian playboy who has organized a clever timetable, with the help of his housekeeper, to schedule his affairs with three airline stewardesses (one Italian, one German, and one American), to spend the night at his apartment whenever they stop over. They each work for different airlines and each thinks she is the only one. However, complications develop when there is a change of fight schedule for one of the girlfriends and an old friend arrives and wants to stay at the apartment for several days.
2008 Tony and Drama Desk Awards
Tony Awards
(Who was Tony? Click here to find out)
Best Play: August: Osage County
Best Musical: In The Heights
Best Revival of a Play: Boeing-Boeing
Best Revival of a Musical: South Pacific
The Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. Gerald Schoenfeld is Chairman and Charlotte St. Martin is Executive Director. Elizabeth I. McCann is Managing Producer.
(click here to learn more about the Drama Desk)
Outstanding Play: August: Osage County
Outstanding Musical: Passing Strange
Outstanding Revival of a Play: Boeing-Boeing
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: South Pacific
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.
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!
click here for the story
The Actors Fund—Celebrating 125 Years
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.”
Read the story! Click here
The Actors Fund and You!
You are invited to join The Actors Fund, the national organization which serves over 8,000 performing arts and entertaining professionals across the country.
Founded in 1882, The Actors Fund is the only national private non-profit 501(c3) organization that provides for the welfare of all entertainment professionals—designers, writers, sound technicians, musicians, dancers, administrators, directors, film editors, stagehands—as well as actors. Professionals in film, television, radio, theatre, opera, dance and music all turn to the Actors Fund in times of need.
It’s easy to become a member of The Actors Fund as there are 8 categories of membership: Regular $25-$99 / Basic $100-$249 / Friend $250-$499 / Donor $500-$999 / Supporter $1,000-$1,499 / Patron $1,500-$2,499 / Sponsor $2,500-$4,999 / Partner $5,000.
Benefits (depending on category of membership) include Marquee Newsletter, free ticket(s) to one or more special performances, opportunity to buy House Seats (the best seats in the theater) at box office cost for every show on Broadway and select theaters in Los Angeles. Also two complimentary tickets to a series of private screenings of major studio releases and a priority phone line for immediate access to House Seats, Special Performances and Special Event Tickets.
Contact:
Judy Fish, Director of Individual Giving
(212) 221-7300 ext.127
JFish@actorsfund.org
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Spanish philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno
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—Cree proverb
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