Broadway producers have a new weapon in their face-off with musicians: a digital orchestra. Will they make good on their threat?

Stephen Sondheim, whose landmark musicals include "Company" and "Follies," gives a biographer good cause to call him Broadway's master of ambivalence.

Vibrant, creative, edgy, demanding (only sometimes!), smart, funny. For this year's awards, we've chosen eleven New Yorkers who not only gave us their best but also brought out the best in New York. From Eliot Spitzer's determined drive to clean up the worst of Wall Street excess to Harvey Fierstein's monumental mom -- with a heart to match, in 'Hairspray' -- not to mention Tina Fey's irrepressibly irreverent humor, we salute their vision and celebrate our luck in being here at the right time and, of course, in the right place.

The folks who brought us "The Lion King" and "Ragtime" changed forever the way Broadway sells itself to the world -- and pretty much killed off the low-profile producer.

Down in Lincoln Center's smallest theater, Broadway's slinkiest choreographer works out her thirties thing with a little help from Benny Goodman, Stephane Grappelli, and a lissome star poised to make everyone jump, jive, and wail.