Broadway Blogs - Have YOU Voted Yet for the Fans' Choice? and More...

The Tony Awards nominations come out tomorrow, but here on BroadwayWorld.com, fans get THEIR say on what's been best on Broadway, starting right now! The most comprehensive theater site on the net brings you this years 2009 Fans' Choice Awards - the largest open voting contest of its kind! In 2008, over 400,000 had their say - now it's YOUR turn!

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!

"Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't."
-- Robert Benchley

The grosses are out for the week ending 5/3/2009 and we've got them all right here in BroadwayWorld.com's grosses section.

Up for the week was: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (12.5%), NEXT TO NORMAL (6.2%), AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (2.7%), ROCK OF AGES (2.2%), MARY STUART (2.0%), CHICAGO (1.9%), 9 TO 5 (1.7%), REASONS TO BE PRETTY (1.3%), DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (1.2%), THE LION KING (0.9%), WICKED">WICKED (0.8%), MAMMA MIA! (0.6%), HAIR (0.1%),

Down for the week was: JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (-32.4%), EXIT THE KING (-23.4%), ACCENT ON YOUTH (-19.8%), THE 39 STEPS (-15.7%), GUYS AND DOLLS (-15.4%), IRENA'S VOW (-13.4%), SHREK THE MUSICAL (-10.8%), WAITING FOR GODOT (-10.2%), MARY POPPINS (-10.2%), AVENUE Q (-8.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-7.5%), BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL (-6.5%), THE LITTLE MERMAID (-4.9%), IMPRESSIONISM">IMPRESSIONISM (-4.2%), IN THE HEIGHTS (-4.0%), 33 VARIATIONS (-3.4%), THE PHILANTHROPIST (-3.1%), GOD OF CARNAGE (-3.0%), BLITHE SPIRIT (-2.7%), SOUTH PACIFIC (-2.1%), JERSEY BOYS (-1.3%), WEST SIDE STORY (-0.9%),