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Word on the street is that they are thinking of removing the arts from the schooling system… I'm sorry. WHAT?! Do my ears decieve me? JUST because it isn't considered 'academic'…? I'll tell you now, anyone who has trained in the arts knows just how important it is and how you can learn things even more useful than Pythagorus … Life skills!

"Hi! My name is Ari, Cyberman is just my nickname! I guess that i should tell you something about me! 49yo, single, never married, no kids, epileptic, i have a dear pet a cat named Lumikki, SnowWhite in english. Please behave in my chatroom or you will get banned for long time! About my project. I want to share my life with every viewer, you can follow my daily life, you can watch and hear what we are doing. Stream will be always on. i will shut my cameras and mute sound if i go to shower, when i have important visitors or when i make import phonecall and so on. You can support my lifestyle by making a donation or monthly payment by using Paypal. You can cancel monthly payment when ever you want to!"

Long after the stars take their final bows, production assistants, dressers, marketing directors, designers, physical therapists and house managers keep the Broadway business running. They are among the minds at work behind the bright lights and creative forces driving the industry forward.

"Artists frequently hide the steps that lead to their masterpieces. They want their work and their career to be shrouded in the mystery that it all came out at once. It's called hiding the brushstrokes, and those who do it are doing a disservice to people who admire their work and seek to emulate them. If you don't get to see the notes, the rewrites, and the steps, it's easy to look at a finished product and be under the illusion that it just came pouring out of someone's head like that. People who are young, or still struggling, can get easily discouraged, because they can't do it like they thought it was done. An artwork is a finished product, and it should be, but I always swore to myself that I would not hide my brushstrokes."

" Our most ambitious live show ever! (get the video!) We pulled together a massive team of theater pros at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House - nearly 50 singers, actors, dancers and musicians. The result? Journalism turned into a Broadway musical (the cast album is here), into opera. Mike Birbiglia, Sasheer Zamata, Stephin Merritt, Josh Hamilton, Lindsay Mendez, Lin-Manuel Miranda and others. "

This collision of real-life tragedy and satirical ambition is much discussed at the Times Square headquarters here of Nickelodeon, a unit of Viacom, mostly because a day of trauma for America is also the birthday of a gentle and singularly optimistic character who, over the next 16 years, would prove eminently capable of soaking up at least a least a little bit of the world's ongoing sadness.