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Please vote for "Is He Dead?"!!!!!!

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

The 9th annual Broadway.Com Audience Award nominations have just been announced, and "Is He Dead?" has been nominated in several categories. If you have a moment, do click on the link below and vote for it!

About the play:

In this newly discovered Mark Twain comedy, the original master of American humor dishes out a sly critique of the art world with acerbic wit and social commentary well ahead of his time. Is He Dead? is a fast-paced play about a struggling artist who stages his own death to drive up the price of his paintings. As the riotous scheme unfolds, Twain poses daring questions about fame, greed and the value of art, and pokes his signature, mischievous fun at everyone involved.

Adapted by David Ives (All in the Timing), directed by two-time Tony Award® winner Michael Blakemore (Noises Off) and starring Tony Award® winner Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Mark Twain's Is He Dead? is a landmark Broadway premiere and a chance to experience the never-before-seen work of a great humorist at the top of his form.

More importantly, the play was rediscovered in the Mark Twain Papers in Berkeley by my mentor, Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

If you have seen the play, you will agree it deserves many awards. If you have not, then just trust me on this and vote for it anyway.

2008 Broadway.Com Audience Award Nominations
-- "Favorite New Broadway Play"
--"Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play" (Norbert Leo Butz)
--"Favorite Diva Performance" (Norbert Leo Butz)
-- "Favorite Ensemble Cast"

Click here to vote!

Full post as published by SIVACRACY .NET on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).