Broadway's jumbled year: Critic's Notebook

latimes.com: "Broadway has had a good year by most accounts. Box-office receipts have just been tallied, and it turns out that this has been the highest grossing season on record. Attendance is up, and artistic moods have justifiably brightened. A broad spectrum of drama, old and new (some of it genuinely challenging), has helped counterbalance the commercial froth. And 'The Book of Mormon,' which has the Tony for best musical in the bag, has given New York its first runaway hit in some time that actually received stellar reviews.