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Murray Schisgal, whose writing brought a 1964 Tony Award nomination for the Broadway play Luv and a 1982 Oscar nomination for the hit Dustin Hoffman comedy Tootsie, died Oct. 1 at a nursing home in Port Chester, New York. He was 93. His death was announced by his son Zach Schisgal. A cause of death was not…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Horn, the Tony Award-winning book writer of the Broadway musical Tootsie, has signed with Verve for representation in all areas. Horn, who began his career as a writer for TV’s Designing Women and Living Single before going on to create CBS’ High Society and FX’s Partners, currently is writing the…

Else Blangsted, a Holocaust survivor who went on to a 35-year career as a film music editor who worked with some of the industry’s most successful directors, producers and composers – Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Dave Grusin, Sydney Pollack, among others – died Friday, May 1, from natural causes at…

Tootsie, the Broadway musical that had an easier time charming critics than winning potential ticket buyers, will play its final performance on Sunday, January 5. The musical, based on the hit Dustin Hoffman movie from 1982 and a winner of two Tony Awards, will have played 293 regular and 25 preview performances since…

Broadway was back to full power last week (New York City’s latest blackout bypassed the theater district), rebounding 12% to $34M from the previous week’s summer-without-a-Saturday box office bruising. With nearly all 29 of the productions resuming their regular eight-performance schedules for Broadway’s Week 8…

Last night’s Tony Awards broadcast on CBS gave this year’s nominated musicals a prime time chance to show the nation what Broadway audiences have been humming about, and for the most part the stage productions made solid choices as to the numbers they chose to put forward. Hadestown, named Best Musical, smartly chose…

Broadway settled into its pre-Tony wait-and-see groove last week, with box office for most shows hovering just above, below or on par with the previous week. In all, the 37 productions took in $35.1 million for the 2018-19 season’s Week 51, a small 5% dip from the previous week. Total attendance was 310,574, a 2%…

Broadway’s Tootsie musical is hitting the road and going global: In addition to a just-announced national North American tour, producers confirmed plans for London, Australia and a Japanese-language production to premiere in Tokyo. The North American tour will kick off at Shea's Buffalo Theater in Buffalo, New York in…

Last week, Tootsie joined Broadway’s million dollar club – the choice group of productions that break the $1 million mark in weekly box office. Along with 11 Tony Award nominations and a star-making turn by lead actor Santino Fontana, the musical adaptation of the 1982 film comedy starring Dustin Hoffman can, in…

The Ferryman, What The Constitution Means To Me and Tootsie continued to build some awards momentum this week, with the New York Drama Critics Circle naming Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman the 2018-19 season’s best play, Heidi Schreck’s Constitution as the best American play and Robert Horn/David Yazbek’s Tootsie best…

Hadestown and Tootsie joined Broadway’s million dollar club last week, each show posting box office totals above the $1M mark, even as Broadway overall slipped from the previous week’s spring-break bounce. Total box office for 36 productions was $34,151,624, about 11% lower than the previous week. Total attendance for…

Broadway settled back a bit last week, slipping about 5% to $38,151,116 from the previous week’s Easter-bumped receipts. Total attendance for the 36 shows during Week 48 (ending Sunday, April 28) was down a small 3% to 316,868. The week was a busy one (especially for critics), with the opening nights of the final four…