Those Good Old Days of Theater (This Year)

NYTimes.com: "THE New York theater, like virtually every other enterprise in America, appears to be heading for some lean times. In recent years new shows often had to fight for access to a Broadway theater at the height of the spring and fall seasons. With a half-dozen Broadway shows, including the big-ticket musicals “Hairspray” and “Young Frankenstein,” closing on the first Sunday of the new year alone — Black Sunday on the Rialto? — there are clear indications that the boom times may be over."