The Addams Family click here for tickets, a new musical based on the famed cartoons by Charles Addams, starts performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway today. The show had a try-out in Chicago in late 2009 and brought in director Jerry Zaks to sharpen up the production. Is The Addams Family now ready to face Broadway? Audiences will decide tonight, and critics will decide on April 8, when the creepy and kooky musical has its official Broadway opening. The Addams Family stars Nathan Lane (The Producers) and Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago) as Gomez and Morticia Addams, Kevin Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, and Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, all members of a ghoulish but loving family of misfits who live in a haunted mansion. The musical has a book by Jersey Boys writers Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman and an original score by Andrew Lippa (Off-Broadway’s The Wild Party).
New Meadowlands Stadium who will play first Jets or Giants
Host of Stadium’s Opener? We’ll Flip You For It
Published: 03-13-10
By Randy Lange
Editor-in-Chief
New Meadowlands Stadium who will play first Jets or Giants
The NFL debut of the New Meadowlands Stadium is now just six months away. The Jets and Giants, co-owners of the 2-million-square-foot pigskin palace, want the privilege and honor of being the host team when that first regular-season game is played there in September.
Who will it be? The Green & White or the Blue & Red? The decision will be made by — what else? — a coin toss.
Both organizations have been vigorously stating their cases to the league office. The NFL has said the game will be decided by a coin toss and the Jets have presented a plan for the flip at the new stadium in the week ahead to make this decision easy. The details of the 50-50 proposition have yet to be fully worked out with the league, but the Jets are willing to let the verdict be determined the same way that the league’s teams have settled some scores for decades.
The coin toss, so important to certain procedures that the NFL has a set of rules to govern it, has been around football since 1892. It has survived actress Elizabeth Taylor mistakenly being allowed to make the call of the opening toss in 1989 at Texas Stadium, and referee Phil Luckett’s coin-flip faux pas before overtime in the Pontiac Silverdome in 1998.
Coin tosses are also used to break ties for draft position on an almost annual basis — in fact, for April’s draft, three sets of teams had the same records and same schedule strengths and so three times heads or tails was called to break each of those ties for first-round draft order.
And “Step No. 12″ in the most important tiebreaking procedures of all, those to determine which teams make the playoffs and which don’t, is a coin toss (although no toss has ever been needed to break a playoff tie).
As mentioned, the date, time and other details of this New Meadowlands Stadium winner-take-home coin toss are still being “minted,” so to speak. It’s quite possible there will be media coverage for this mini-event and fans may be invited into the stadium to observe the proceedings and cheer on their side — meaning their team as well as their team’s side of the medallion.
Think about it: the first coin toss at midfield of New Meadowlands Stadium, and it comes between the Jets and Giants.
We’ll provide you with more details when we get them.
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