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Barry Weissler Exclusive:
Day 19
By Barry Weissler, What is happening in the world…
Mon Feb 11, 2008
What is happening in the world keeps me awake at night. I am angry at Bush for what he has done to America and the world. There is neither logic nor compassion there. I have so many questions to ask the government. Why do we pay our farmers not to grow crops when there are people starving in the world? Why are our troops in Iraq and not Darfur where they could be saving lives? When is this country going to stop living on money borrowed from other nations? When are we going to stop destroying the ecosystems that give us life? Do we not care about our future and the future of the world?
Broadway producers Barry & Fran Weissler are the recipients of five Tony Awards®. Their numerous Broadway credits include acclaimed productions Othello with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer, My One and Only with Tommy Tune, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Kathleen Turner and Charles Durning, Gypsy with Tyne Daly, and the Tony Award-winning productions of Falsettos and Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters and Reba McEntire, among others. They are currently represented on Broadway – and across the globe -- with the international smash hit Chicago, which earned six 1997 Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival, as well as countless other awards in the U.S. and abroad.