Hey, theater people, Patrick here. Just a reminder that you can support theater people and all of the new shows we're creating by making a donation via our Patreon page.

If you love theater people or Broadway Backstory or BroadwayCon the podcast, we'd be so grateful if you'd consider tossing a couple of bucks our way.

And you get great rewards for doing so.

And we are so, so, so grateful to those of you who have already done that. You can go to

patreon.com and search for Theater People podcast, or you can follow the link on the main page of our

website, which is theater people.com. That, of course, is Theater with an ERPPL.com. Also, huge thanks to those of you who have

subscribed and listened to our new podcast, Broadway Backstory. I'm blown away by the number of you

who have done that and by the beautiful things you've had to say about the show. For those of

you who don't know, Broadway Backstory is a new documentary-style podcast that we're creating in partnership with Today Tix.

Each episode of Broadway backstory finds out how a show develops from an idea to a full Broadway production.

And we get the story from the people who lived it. The actors, directors, composers, writers, they've all shared their stories with us so that we can share

them with you. Our first two episodes, which are available now, tell the incredible true

backstory of the Tony winning in the Heights. We find out how that show went from a college project

to the Tony winning Broadway hit. We talked to Lynn Manuel Miranda, director Tommy Cale,

the producers,

actors, and so many more.

Our next episode,

which premieres Tuesday,

November 29th,

gets the backstory

of the groundbreaking

Tony-winning,

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