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I know, it's odd that I break my long silence (excuses below) to comment on the world series, but it is one of our great national dramas. And like any good drama, it involves the audience, which creates a crisis for us in Pittsburgh: How can we bring ourselves to root for a team from Philadelphia ? On the other hand -- and especially for a New England
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They say there's no arguing about taste, but of course that's wrong -- taste is probably what we argue about most. (It's facts about which there ought to be no arguing, but there is, because some people -- always on the other side of the argument, of course -- don't care any more about facts than reason.) So this is my disclaimer, taking
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Following is a message I sent today on behalf of the American Theatre Critics Association to the Broadway League and American Theatre Wing, who jointly administer the Tony Awards. To: Nina Lannan, Chair, and Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director, The Broadway League; and Theodore Chapin, Chairman, and Howard Sherman, Executive Director, American
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If you've recently heard wailings and gnashing of teeth in the small community of New York theater critics, noisy enough to register in the larger world, it's because the Tony Awards have announced they're cutting critics out of the electorate. There are about 800 electors, mainly made up of producers (including presenters of Broadway productions
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NEW YORK, 2 a.m. Saturday night/Sunday morning -- What a great start to the Jimmys! Some of the pros on the judges panel clearly thought they were doing community service by judging a group of high school students, but watching the 32 young contestants do their audition solos and ensemble pieces, they were surprised to discover a freshet of real (if
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Sunday noon -- A picture and short story in Saturday's PG promised I was blogging from The Jimmys in New York, but that starts tonight, with the first round, and I'm just on my way to NYC now. Named after legendary theater producer Jimmy Nederlander, the Jimmys are the national extension of Pittsburgh CLO's Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence
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7:30 pm Many a year at this time, I'd have already been jostling for an hour alongside the red carpet, getting in a word or two with the Tony nominees I knew or was rooting for. The best scheme was always to squirm in beside someone with a TV camera who would attract the press agents peddling the bigger names. It was sort of like the relationship
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7:30 pm Many a year at this time, I'd have already been jostling for an hour alongside the red carpet, getting in a word or two with the Tony nominees I knew or was rooting for. The best scheme was always to squirm in beside someone with a TV camera who would attract the press agents peddling the bigger names. It was sort of like the relationship
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Tuesday, May 5 Flew up early to beat the rush -- i.e., the PG ShowPlane group, arriving tomorrow with uber-competent Paul and Jackie Busang of Gulliver's Travels -- and also to see a couple of more shows. For once, Broadway is awash in plays, not just musicals, and I had a devil of a time deciding which eight shows to cram in the standard six-day
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NEW YORK -- The PG's annual spring ShowPlane to Broadway brought me here just in time for Wednesday morning's press event, a giant media reception for the Tony nominees who had been announced the day before. Call it a fan's fantasy, organized chaos or a scrum, it was a jam-packed 3½ hours. I arrived early enough to get checked in