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Musical theater in the age of coronavirus:
An American report

The coronavirus pandemic has shut theaters all across America, like the rest of the world, for months at least. What’s beyond that is anyone’s guess.

9/11 resulted in Broadway going dark for two days, which was unheard of at the time. The coronavirus pandemic has shut theaters all across America, like the rest of the world, for months at least. What’s beyond that is anyone’s guess.

Big names and aspirations come with 5th
Avenue Theatre’s Broadway-bound musical ‘Marie, Dancing Still’

Special to The Seattle Times

In 2002, Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre scored its first Broadway hit by launching “Hairspray,” a zesty, warmhearted musical romp that snapped up eight Tony Awards.

New Investment Funds Set the Stage for Broadway Shows

Center Stage Capital is one of a handful of vehicles putting money into
multiple shows at once

As a financial adviser with a love for theater, Al Zdenek decided some years ago to invest in shows, but he soon learned the tough reality of the business: Just a handful of productions ever turn a profit. “I never had a hit,” he said.

For One Producer,  Doctor Zhivago  Musical
Is About Two Love Stories Written in the Stars

A series of improbable coincidences convinced Anita Waxman that the musical Doctor Zhivago was "meant to be."

In an early passage from the novel Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak puts a poetic spin on Jesus' Second Greatest Commandment. "Love of one's neighbor…is the supreme form of vital energy," he writes. "Once it fills the heart of man it has to overflow and spend itself."

How the Stars Aligned to Bring Dr. Zhivago to Broadway

Dr. Zhivago, the musical adaptation of the best-selling novel and film, opened at the Broadway Theatre April 21.

Some signs you just can't ignore. When producer Anita Waxman, being of Russian extraction, went to Moscow and adopted a two-year-old named Yuri Antipov, it was not lost on her that the musical she wanted to bring to Broadway had a hero named Yuri Zhivago and a villain named Pasha Antipov. A good omen, but was it a sign?