Hair will still be running; the performer's contracts have been extended through at least March. Of the others, 9 to 5 is in the most jeopardy - big weekly costs, expensive cast, and a gaping maw of a theater. Next to Normal should stay running unless Alice Ripley decides to jump to another show.

The Ragtime revival looks great; saw the original 3 times. Its losses at the '98 Tony Awards had as much to do with backlash against producer Garth Drabinsky as it did with the love for Julie Taymor's Lion King.