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Composers in isolation are taking their chops to Twitter with the idea of raising dough for furloughed Broadway workers. Musical megastar Andrew Lloyd Webber started the trend Thursday, playing the show-stopping “All I Ask of You” from his “Phantom of the Opera” musical. The cooped-up Twitterati were ticked by Webber’s tinkling of the ivories. “I …

As Broadway grapples with the Chinese virus crisis, producers have concluded that the Great White Way will not reopen in April, as they’d hoped. The best-case scenario right now is the summer, and that means many new shows aren’t going to survive. “This is worse than 9/11,” says a top producer. “We lost a few …

Broadway. One producer closed four running shows. Another, who shut global companies, plus traveling out-of-town companies, said: “Besides no income, we’re stuck with financial obligations, signed contracts. To contact them all, it’s telephones, social media, e-mails to stage managers, company managers, theater owners, assistants, box-office personnel, theater employees, backstage personnel. “Plus canceling productions in work, …

When you’re a jet, you’re a jet forever — or until you phone home. Steven Spielberg will premiere his new version of “West Side Story” on the big screen this December — a passion project for the legendary director that he said has been a “haunting temptation” for years. Spielberg, 73, told Vanity Fair recently …