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FOR 66 YEARS Performing Arts Insider has been the leading source of information
about the performing arts in
New York City and around the country.

Each hardcopy issue of PAI includes day-by-day calendar listings of shows ON BROADWAY, OFF & OFF-OFF-BROADWAY, plus DANCE, OPERA, CABARET, AWARDS & SPECIAL EVENTS!

Also included are comprehensive theater guides, listing the author, director, cast, designers, synopsis, theater and box office details, as well as contact information for producers, press agents, general managers and casting directors. Not only that, PAI offers rumors on upcoming big shows, parental guides to Broadway, regional updates, reviews of Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and other special, useful and easy-to-read features.

 **** See the bottom of this page for sample listings and content -- just as they appear in every issue of Performing Arts Insider!

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PAI's editor-in-chief, Dave Lefkowitz (left), is the founder of TotalTheater.com and former managing editor of Playbill.com. Co-publisher Richmond Shepard (right) has been a respected producer, director, performer and theater owner for more than half a century. Together, they bring nearly 80 years of experience covering theater from the inside - to the Insider.

  
PAI is a must for anyone working in the theater, covering the theater for print or media, or for anyone who simply loves the theater and wants the inside scoop!  But don't just take our word for it:

"Performing Arts Insider is a goldmine of information for the theater professional. I refer to it regularly." Tom Creamer, Dramaturg, Goodman Theater
"As doctors use the Physician's Desk Reference, as attorneys use Westlaw, I use my Performing Arts Insider. It's all the facts at your fingertips." Sherry Eaker, editor-in-chief, Backstage
 
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Publishers: Richmond Shepard & David Lefkowitz
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SAMPLES

Curious about the content of Performing Arts Insider?

Here are sample, abridged columns (from our archives) of the type that appear in every issue of PAI.  For the current issue, send $15, check or money order, to: TotalTheater, POB 31, Greeley, CO 80632-0031.


Day-By-Day  – BROADWAY

DATE

SHOW

THEATER

OWN

LOCATION

PR

DETAILS

 Now

BILLY ELLIOT

Imperial

Shu

249 W 45 St.

Hartman Group: 212-398-1800

Open run

 Now

BURN THE FLOOR

Longacre

Shu

220 W 48 St.

Boneau/BB 212-575-3030

To Jan. 3

 Now

BYE BYE BIRDIE

Henry Miller's

Rou

124 W 43 St.

Boneau/BB 212-575-3030

Op Oct. 15

 Now

CHICAGO

Ambassador

Shu

219 W 49 St.

Publicity Office 315-2120

Open run

 Now

GOD OF CARNAGE

Bernard B. Jacobs

Shu

242 W 45 St.

Boneau/BB 212-575-3030

Open run

 



                       Guide - BROADWAY: Current



SHOW & CREDITS

PRODUCER / PRESS

VENUE

DATES

AFTER MISS JULIE
DRAMA. Auth: Patrick Marber (Agt: Judy Daish: 011-44-208-964-8811; judy@ judydaish.demon.co.uk), adapting Henrik Ibsen's Miss Julie. Dir: Mark Brokaw
Cast: Sienna Miller (Julie), Jonny Lee Miller.
Plot: Upper-class woman's tragic fling with a chauffeur, moved to
England in 1945.
Note: Marber wrote Closer & Dealer's Choice.

PROD: Roundabout Theater Company (Todd Haimes, art dir; Julia C. Levy, exec dir; Harold Wolpert, mgng dir; roundabouttheatre.org) in assoc w/ Sonia Friedman Productions (c/o Duke of York’s, 104 St. Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4BG, UK; 011-44-207-845-8750; soniafriedman.com) & Ostar Productions (268 W. 44 St, NYC 10036. 212-719-5091). GM: Sydney Beers 212-719-9393.
ADV: SPOTCo
212-262-3355.
MKTG: Allied Live
212-302-2033
PR: Boneau/Bryan-Brown:
1501 Bway, NYC 10036. 212-575-3030


American Airlines Theater [Rou]: 227 West 42 sSt. 212-719-1300

Prev: Sept. 18, 2009; Op: Oct. 22, 2009; To: Dec. 6, 2009

BILLY ELLIOT
MUSICAL. Music: Elton John; Book/Lyrics: Lee Hall.
Dir: Stephen Daldry, based on Daldry's 2000 movie. Choreog: Peter Darling
Set: Ian MacNeil; Cost: Sue Blane. Sound: Paul Arditti; Music Sup: Martin Koch
Casting: Tara Rubin (
570 7th Ave, #401, NYC 10018) / Nora Brennan.
Cast: Gregory Jbara, Carole Shelley, Will Chase (Tony), Tommy Batcherlor, Trent Kowalik, David Alvarez & Kiril Kulish (all play Billy), Ann Emery, Haydn Gwynne (Agt: Markham & Froggatt: 011-44-207-636-4412).
History:
5/11/05-open run at UK's Victoria Palace.
Awd: 2009 DDesk: Musical, Mus (John), BookMus (Hall), Orch (Koch), FeatActMus (Jbara), FeatActressMus (Gwynne), DirMus (Daldry), Chor (Darling), Sound (Arditti), LightMus (Fisher). 2009 NYDramaCrixCirc: Musical. 2006 Olivier (UK): New Musical. 2009 OCC: BwayMus, Score, DirMus (Daldry), Chor (Darling), Light (Fisher), FeatActorMus (Jbara), FeatActressMus (Gwynne), SpecAchiev (Alvarez, Kowalik, Kulish). 2009 Tony: Mus, MusBook (Hall), MusActor (Alvarez/Kowalik/Kulish), MusFeatActor (Jbara), MusDir (Daldry), Choreog (Darling), Orch <tie> Koch, MusSet (MacNeil), MusLight (Fisher), MusSound (Arditti).
Plot: Boy in a depressed and politically rife mining town has a talent for dancing.

PROD: Universal Pictures, Working Title (Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, chairs; Oxford House, 76 Oxford St, London, UK W1D 1BX. 011-44-207-307-3000; workingtitlefilms.com) & Old Vic Productions (Lord Attenborough, chair; Sally Greene, CEO; The Old Vic, The Cut, London, UK SE1 8NB; 011-44-207-401-3534; oldvicproductions.com), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, Sally Greene. billyelliotthemusical.com. Exec Prod: Angela Morrison & David Furnish.
GM: Nina Lannan Assoc. 212-221-1122
CAP: $18mil.
BIZ
: $1.4m / 100% (
8/23/09).
PERFS: 40prev/244reg (
6/14/09).
PR: Hartman Group (Michelle Bergmann): 212-398-1800; michelle@ barhart.com

Notes: Won UK Evening Standard Award for Best Musical. Jbara was in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Imperial Theater [Shub]: 249 West 45 St. $111-41. TelChg 212-239-6200

Prev: Oct. 1, 2008; Op: Nov. 13, 2008; open run

 


GUIDE – PRESS AGENTS

 

(The following list of theatrical press agents and agencies is alphabetized by last name. Information is subject to change, and staff lists are not complete)

 

Jim Baldassare: 201 West 70 St., #11B, NYC 10023. 212‑362‑3346; fx 787-1041; Jbpressrep@ aol.com.

Barlow‑Hartman Public Relations: 1560 Broadway, #909, NYC 10036. 212-398‑1800; fx 212-398-7110. Staff: John Barlow (john@ barhart.com), Michael Hartman (michael@ barhart.com), Wayne Wolfe, Dennis Crowley, Carol Fineman 212-354-7343.

carolf@ cfpublicity.com), Tom D’Ambrosio (tom@ barhart.com), Andrew Snyder, Gerilyn Shur (gerilyn@ barhart.com), Leslie Baden, Jon Dimond (jdimond@ barhart.com). (Grease,Wicked ,Young Frankenstein.)


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RUMORS


* THE ADDAMS FAMILY. Book: Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice. Score: Andrew Lippa, adapting Charles Addams cartoons. Dir/Set: Phelim McDermott & Julian Crouch. Choreog: Sergio Trujillo. Music Dir: Mary-Mitchell Campbell; Casting: Telsey + Co. Cast; Bebe Neuwirth, Nathan Lane (rumored). PROD: Elephant Eye Theatrical (Stuart Oken, Michael Leavitt & Five Cent Productions). CAP: $10m. GM: 101 Productions. Casting: Telsey + Co. PR: The Publicity Office (Marc Thibodeau): mthibodeau@ publicityoffice.com. Notes: Workshops eyed for Jan. 2009 (PBOL 10/08). Capitalization in place for tryouts and then Bway in 2009-10 season (NYPOST 6/08). Elice & Brickman penned Jersey Boys. Lippa penned the off-Bway Wild Party. Chances: possible.

 

* DIRTY DANCING – The Classic Story On Stage. Musical. Book: Eleanor Bergstein, adapting her 1987 screenplay. Songs: Period hits and new numbers by John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz & Franke Previte. Dir: James Powell. Set: Stephen Brimson Lewis; Light: Tim Mitchell; Sound: Bobby Aitken; Video: Jon Driscoll. Cast: Josef Brown (Johnny), Amanda Leigh Cobb (Baby), Britta Lazenga (Penny). Plot: At holiday camp, daughter meets dance teacher from the wrong side of the tracks. PROD (UK): Jacobsen Entertainment in assoc w/ Lions Gate Films & Magic Hour Productions. Notes: Current staging at Chicago’s Cadillac Palace (9/28-12/7/08) billed as pre-Bway and eyeing the Neil Simon Theater for Fall 2009 (VAR, 10/08). Huge sales for premiere at London's Aldwych (dirtydancinglondon.com; 3/07). Dodgers workshopped it in Aug. 2001, with Laura Breckenridge, Davis Robertson, Michael Rupert & Kaitlin Hopkins. Chances: good.


































 
 
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