Broadway Blogs - One Week Left to Vote for the 2009 Fans' Choice Awards and More...

The Tony Awards are still a couple of weeks away, but time is running out to vote for the BroadwayWorld.com 2009 Theater Fans' Choice Awards. We've had a record number of votes already this year with just under a week left to vote (voting ends on June 1, 2009). 

The 7th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Theater Fans' Choice Awards is the biggest and most popular online, open (viewable in real-time as the votes are tallying), Broadway polling event of its kind. We want to give Broadway audiences, theater professionals, fans and enthusiasts the opportunity to weigh-in on what they (you!) think is the best of the 2008-2009 theater season. Best of all, you can vote for ANY of your favorite performers and shows - the 2009 Theater Fans' Choice Awards are all-encompassing and don't leave anyone out via a nomination process.

So what are you waiting for? Click now for more information and to vote!

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

-- Dorothy Parker 

The grosses are out for the week ending 5/24/2009 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (16.0%), MARY POPPINS (13.9%), SHREK THE MUSICAL (13.8%), GUYS AND DOLLS (12.6%), REASONS TO BE PRETTY (11.8%), THE LITTLE MERMAID (10.9%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (9.8%), AVENUE Q (9.7%), JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (8.7%), THE 39 STEPS (6.2%), CHICAGO (5.0%), EXIT THE KING (4.4%), 33 VARIATIONS (4.3%), NEXT TO NORMAL (3.9%), BLITHE SPIRIT (3.8%), IN THE HEIGHTS (2.9%), THE LION KING (2.6%), ROCK OF AGES (2.1%), WEST SIDE STORY (1.2%), MAMMA MIA! (1.1%), GOD OF CARNAGE (0.8%), SOUTH PACIFIC (0.3%), BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (0.1%),

Down for the week was: ACCENT ON YOUTH (-16.1%), WAITING FOR GODOT (-8.8%), MARY STUART (-3.0%), 9 TO 5 (-1.7%), THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (-1.7%), THE PHILANTHROPIST (-1.4%), HAIR (-0.7%), AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (-0.6%), IRENA'S VOW (-0.4%),