BroadwayWorld.com Announces Start to 2004 Theater Fans' Choice Awards – Letting the Internet Community Pick the Best in Theater

Second Annual Awards Poll, and New Site Features
Celebrate Site's Explosive Growth and First Birthday
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(May 10, 2004 Nyack, NY) - BroadwayWorld.com (https://www.broadwayworld.com), the premier theater site on the internet, announced today the start of voting for the Second Annual Theater Fans' Choice Awards. Celebrating the site's one year anniversary on the Internet, new site features are available as well, providing visitors the most complete theater resource on the web. "BroadwayWorld.com is receiving tens of thousands of visitors a day, and has been expanding by the minute." said Robert Diamond, Editor-in-Chief and Founder "We are committed to our continuing our growth serving the theater community."

"BroadwayWorld.com has been expanding on a daily basis since the site launched in May of 2003." said Craig Brockman, Senior Editor of BroadwayWorld.com "Already, the site has established itself with the most popular theater discussion forums on the net, and we're increasing our editorial and photo coverage bringing the latest in Broadway news and information to the professional and fan communities."

The Second Annual Theater Fans' Choice Awards (/vote.cfm) – the online award program that lets the audience decide who and what was the best in the 2003/4 New York theater season – will be running until June 6, 2004. Unlike other awards, entries in the Theater Fans' Choice Awards are voted on by members of the theater community including fans and industry professionals. There are over 250 actors, actresses, creative teams and shows nominated categories including Best Book of a Musical, Best Choreography, Best Costumes, Best Direction of a Play/Musical, Best Featured Actor/Actress in a Musical/Play, Best Leading Actor/Actress in a Musical/Play, Best Lighting, Best Musical, Best Orchestrations, Best Score, Best Play, Best Revival of a Musical/Play, and Best Scenic Design. 

The new Broadway Web Directory, featuring nearly 1,000 sites covering theaters, performers, professionals, and related companies launched in April of 2004 and is already being used a valuable resource by visitors to the site. All web sites in the directory are verified, and indexed by category, as well as completely searchable. Anyone with a theater related web site can post entries to the directory for free in a matter of minutes.

Adding to the family of exclusive BroadwayWorld.com newsletters, is the new and already popular "Weekly News Roundup" which presents the previous weeks most popular, and biggest stories from the site, and from around the net in an easy to read email format.

New to BroadwayWorld.com Radio, (/radio.cfm) the net's leading online Broadway web radio station is Jim Caruso's Cast Party which is a joyous celebration of the showbiz scene, featuring live musical performances by New York's most dazzling Broadway and cabaret personalities. Cast Party features music as well as dishy conversations with favorite stars about anything and everything they might have on their brilliant minds. Historic or hysterical…Jim Caruso's Cast Party is always entertaining! Tune in every Tuesday and Friday night at 8pm exclusively on BroadwayWorld.com! Jim Caruso's Cast Party joins BroadwayWorld's growing lineup of exclusive web radio content including Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Chatterbox, On the Boards with Scott Nevins, and many exclusive airings of Broadway concerts, and other live events.

About BroadwayWorld.com

BroadwayWorld.com is the premier theater web site on the net, serving both theater fans, and of those professionally involved in the Broadway community. BroadwayWorld.com features hourly news, reviews, discussion forums, columns, reviews, chat, web radio, trader's corner, web directory, events calendar, star bios and many other features to keep users coming and coming back. BroadwayWorld.com is the place to go for your daily dose of theater.

 

Contacts:

Robert Diamond
BroadwayWorld.com
845-358-5550
robert@broadwayworld.com

Tracy Wemett

BroadPR

617-868-5031