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• 2008'S FINAL CURTAIN CALLS

  RECALLING THE STARS WHO DIED THIS YEAR

  December 31, 2008 - BROADWAY lost some delightful char acters this year. Let's remember them today, in their own words. VAN JOHNSON Johnson started out in the theater, singing and dancing in "New Faces of...more >

• THE LAST OF THE B'WAY TITANS

  December 24, 2008 - AS Broadway enters what's shaping up to be its roughest patch in dec ades, James M. Nederlander Sr. is one of the few theater people around who knows what it's like to live through lean...more >

• IT'S CURTAIN$

  NEW 4% TAX TO SOCK SINKING B'WAY

  December 21, 2008 - FACING "Black Tuesday" - when the first six of 13 shows slated to close go dark on Jan. 6 - Broadway has been hit with a final indignity: a 4 percent tax on theater tickets. The hike...more >

• UNFRIENDLY WORDS OVER 'PAL'

  POST LEAK LEADS TO E-MAIL BATTLE

  December 17, 2008 - ON the eve of the opening of the trou bled revival of "Pal Joey," a war of words has broken out between the head of the Roundabout Theatre Company and the head of the Rodgers...more >

• FILM STARS ENTER FOR 'EXIT'

  FROM OSCAR TO IONESCO

  December 12, 2008 - WHILE many of Broadway's musicals are either shuttering or sputtering, plays - with movie stars as their headliners - are sprouting all over the Rialto. The latest mushroom: Eugene...more >

• WHEN 'EX' MARKS THE PLOT

  PLAYWRIGHT DIVORCED FROM PROMOTING 'BUFFALO'

  December 10, 2008 - CRITICS didn't have much use for the re vival of David Mamet's "American Buf falo," which closed Nov. 23 after just a week of performances. But they weren't alone in their...more >

• JAMES BOND'S STAGE SECRETS

  December 5, 2008 - MOST of the world knows Roger Moore as James Bond, the role he played for 12 years, from "Live and Let Die" (1973) to "A View to a Kill" (1985), when, by his own admission...more >

• GREAT 'BOY' BUT NO 'PAL'

  HURT FOOT LETS HOFF WALK OUT ON ROLE

  December 3, 2008 - CHRISTIAN Hoff was a terrific sup porting player in "Jersey Boys" - so good, in fact, that he won a Tony for his performance as the thuggish Tommy De Vito. But as leading-man material...more >

• MONEY OF 'COLOR' WITHDRAWN

  NEW GUARE PLAY WON'T BE IN PUBLIC

  November 28, 2008 - HOW handy it is these days for producers to blame "the economy" whenever a show falls apart. And how easily the media accept it. The latest example: The cancellation, on the eve of...more >

• CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARDS

  SHUBERT CHIEF WAS POWER BEHIND B'WAY CURTAINS

  November 26, 2008 - THOUGH he may not have been as well-known to the public as the impresarios of the past - Florenz Zieg feld, David Merrick, David Belasco and their ilk - Gerald Schoenfeld wielded more power than...more >