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This month, the reader question was: Have any Broadway plays ever closed before they opened? Check out the second part of this historical deep dive!

The second half of the season starts off jam packed with a Mexican drug bust gone bad and a Texas Ranger dead, a 25th wedding anniversary get-away for the McCords, and a family injury back at home. The Secretary is having trouble getting Mexico to extradite the captured drug running killer to the U.S., unless the Ranger's family agree's to take the death penalty off the table. The family agrees, but the Texas Governor is using the death penalty for a little grand-standing to bolster a possible future Presidential run.

?According to the New York Times, Steve Curry, an original cast member of the Broadway rock musical HAIR, died on September 13, 2014. He was 68.

According to The New York Times, Rev. Sidney Lanier, an experimental stage producer, passed away on Sept. 23 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 90.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will stage its 150th production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist to open its 2009-2010 on October 6. The production will run through November 22. Michael Kahn will direct.

The Shakespeare Theatre Company will stage its 150th production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist to open its 2009-2010 on October 6. The production will run through November 22. Michael Kahn will direct.