"The Producers" to close on Broadway in NY
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"The Producers," Mel Brooks'  record-setting musical about two men trying to create a  Broadway flop, will close in New York on April 22 after more  than 2,500 performances, the show's public relations firm said  on Friday.
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Broadway star Nathan Lane has ended his part in the London run of Mel Brooks' hit musical "The Producers" after a back injury forced him to miss several performances.
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Musical Bombay Dreams is to close on Broadway, New York, eight months after opening.
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The Broadway musical "High Fidelity," based on the Nick Hornby novel and subsequent Hollywood movie, will be canceled 11 days after it opened, its producers announced.
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Another star of "The Producers" is crossing the Atlantic. Brad Oscar, currently starring in the Mel Brooks musical on Broadway, will replace Nathan Lane in the London production next month, producers confirmed Friday.
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"The Color Purple" will close Feb. 24 on Broadway after a run of more than two years.
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The Broadway musical "High Fidelity,"  based on the Nick Hornby novel and subsequent Hollywood movie,  will be canceled 11 days after it opened, its producers  announced.
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Several blocks of New York City's Broadway were briefly closed off near Times Square due to a suspicious package, but have now reopened, police said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Tuesday night in Manhattan at the St. James Theater, the courageous Tony Danza steps into some big boots: playing Max Bialystock, originated by Nathan Lane in the musicalized "The Producers" back in 2001.
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ABC's "Ugly Betty" will  be heading back to production with a smaller producing team  once the Hollywood writers strike ends. Executive producers  Marco Pennette and James Hayman were let go from the  Emmy-winning comedy-drama Monday, the same day the series was  renewed for a third season.
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Playbill - Rob Fisher, a theatreland fixture as longtime musical director of the popular Encores! musicals in concert series at City Center, has decided to step down at the end of the current 2005 season, Variety reported.
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The Broadway show will stage its last performance on January 1.
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LOS ANGELES  - ABC's "Ugly Betty" will be heading back to production with a smaller producing team once the Hollywood writers strike ends. Executive producers Marco Pennette and James Hayman were let go from the Emmy-winning comedy-drama Monday, the same day the series was renewed for a third season.
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Playbill - In the latest of a series of editorial changes which had an impact on the theatre community, the New York Times has eliminated the free theatre listings - known as "The Guide" - found in the Sunday edition of the paper.
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Playbill - Oedipus for Kids!, a new satiric musical introducing Sophocles' bloody tragedy to children, has sold out its originally scheduled performances in the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg has offered to help get stalled labor negotiations between Broadway stagehands and theater producers back on track, but feels "at least for the next month or so, there is no danger of a work stoppage or lockout on Broadway."
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US film star Richard Dreyfuss has pulled out a London production of hit musical &quot;The Producers&quot; less than a month before it opens due to a recurrence of back and shoulder injuries, according to an announcement.