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NOW - SEPTEMBER 4 | Voting 10 A.M. - 10 P.M. Daily

For 15 days, we are pitting one Broadway musical against another Broadway
musical and letting our Facebook fans vote the daily winner until, after 4 rounds of
historic musical battles, we will crown the 2009 “Best All-Time Musical”!

We've chosen 16 Broadway musicals to battle each other.Each was chosen for a combination of the
number of awards won, combined with the longest runs on "The Great White Way" -- BROADWAY.

1 Broadway musical will be voted the best of all time ...
and one lucky contestant will win:

• 4 tickets to attend MARY POPPINS
• Dinner for 4 at “Dining at the Music Hall”
• A show poster from this season, signed by the show's cast
• A CD from one of this season's shows
• Backstage tour for MARY POPPINS

Special thanks to "Dining at the Music Hall" for donating
dinner for four lucky fans as part of the prize package!

PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE PAGE:
THERE ARE 2 DISTINCT & DIFFERENT WAYS TO JOIN THE FUN

Vote on facebook in the daily battles,

- or -

Have a chance to win the prize package by entering the contest
(we hope you'll join in both activities!)

Here are the details:

VOTING (Happening now; weekdays - Sept. 4): Help determine each day's winning musical by voting on facebook!
Here’s your chance to be in the trenches of the daily battles! Each day when we post the scheduled battle on our facebook page (www.facebook.com/dallassummermusicals), comment beneath that post to vote your choice of winner for that day! Then, if you want a chance to win the Mary Poppins Prize Package, enter the contest, below!

The voting polls will be "open" weekdays beginning Monday, August 17, running through Friday, September 4th -- 15 days of battles! Each day’s voting will last from 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Votes commented outside the times posted above will not be accepted. Once the vote is tallied, we will post the winning show who made it to the next round of voting!

* You must be a “fan” of Dallas Summer Musicals (DSM) on Facebook. One vote per person, per day please. You may vote on all of the battles, or only the ones you desire. To win the Mary Poppins Prize Package, you must enter the CONTEST described below. Voting on facebook is not an entry in to the contest.

CONTEST: We are no longer accepting tournament brackets! - Good luck to the 100s who submitted!

Enter to win the MARY POPPINS package by submitting a tournament bracket. Predict the outcome of each of the battles BEFORE they start! The most accurate bracket wins! *

This "contest" portion is separate and distinct from the facebook voting -- it is your pre-battle prediction of all the head-to-head match-ups fans will be voting for on facebook, beginning August 17, 10am! To vote in those battles see the information above entitled, "VOTING".

To enter the contest -- Very, Very Important!: READ ALL 8 POINTS BELOW.

1. Download the 2009 tournament bracket form (it will take a moment to load) and complete it in full, making your predictions for each of the 15 battles all the way to the championship. Please make sure to fill out the personal information area as well. 1 form per person please.
   
   FORM TIP: Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it or need to update your current copy click here. The form has fields in to which you can simply type your answers. Once the PDF loads in your browser, start with the name field in the center. Then you can simply hit the [tab] button until you have typed your answers in to ALL the fields. Of course you can also use your mouse to jump around the page -- should you need to re-think an answer! Be sure to read our "prediction strategy tips", further down the page.
   
   
2. Fill out form completely. All fields MUST be completed. One must be on facebook to participate.
   "FACEBOOK ID" TIP: If you're unsure how to identify your facebook ID, simply go to your profile. Once there, in the address bar of your internet browser, you'll see something that looks like this:
   
   id=547346439
   
   simply copy and paste the ID number in to the correct field on your contest bracket! And be sure to enter your favorite show!
   
   
3. Return form to us by clicking on the "Submit via Email" button ON THE FORM. (Bottom center above the scoring...) Submission help can be found at the bottom of this page.
   
   
4. We MUST receive all entry brackets before battle 1 begins on Monday, August 17th at 10 a.m.! Brackets received after that will not be accepted.
   
   
5. Each day’s answers will be scored on each person's bracket according to the scoring breakdown:
   
   
   1. BRACKET SCORING VALUES:
      Each battle win, round 1 = 1 pt./each
      Each battle win, round 2 = 2 pts./each
      Each battle win, round 3 = 3 pts./each
      
      Left / Right Side Fully Correct = 3 bonus pts./side
      Correctly Predict the final 4 = 4 bonus pts.
      Correctly Predict Champion = 2 bonus pts.
      
      
6. PREDICTION STRATEGY TIPS
   
   
   1. Be careful whom you select to win each battle! While people, not in this contest, are simply voting their favorite show of each battle -- as a contestant you will be filling out the contest bracket based on how you think people voted on facebook! Remember, just because a show might be popular doesn't mean others won't vote a different winner.
      
      
   2. You'll see we have added a "Statistic Line" beneath each show title. This will tell you how many Tony® (T), Drama Desk® (D) Grammy® (G) Pulitzer® (P) awards that show has won, and also the “Longest Running Show on Broadway” Position (#).
      
      
7. ABOUT THE SHOWS BATTLING ONE ANOTHER IN THIS CONTEST
   
   

   "West Side Musicals" 1. Phantom of the Opera 2. RENT 3. Wicked 4. A Chorus Line 5. Fiddler on the Roof 6. Hello Dolly! 7. My Fair Lady 8. Cabaret

   "East Side Musicals" 1. The Lion King 2. The Producers 3. Les Miserables 4. Hairspray 5. Chicago 6. Cats 7. Beauty and the Beast 8. South Pacific

   
   There will be some who will lament the exclusion of their favorite show from the tournament: Indeed, my own favorite is SCARLET PIMPERNEL, and it didn't make the cut. We used Wikipedia's list of the 100 longest-running broadway shows, which includes the awards won by each show in the list.
   
   The 16 shows chosen were the ones who had the longest runs on Broadway combined with the most awards given. Generally speaking, a show had to have 6 Tony Awards® to make the cut. The first exception to that was RENT, which had only 4 Tonys®, but had 12 awards combined (including a Pulitzer®) AND was the #8 longest running show in Broadway history. The other exception was BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, which had only 1 Tony®, but was the #6 longest running show in Broadway history, clear skewing towards the "Longest Run on Broadway" end of the spectrum (graphic below).
   
   A few shows which won a lot of awards may not have had as long a run on Broadway as others, but they were accepted because they skewed towards the "Most Major Awards Won" end of the spectrum. It should be noted that to even be on Wiki's list, a show had to have 1, 010 performances on Broadway. A real tragedy is when a given show had won a fair number of awards, but the Broadway run was too short to make the list. SWEENEY TODD is an example of this with 3 Tonys®, 4 Drama Desks® and an Olivier Award®, but only played Broadway for 557 performances.
   
   Seeding the actual tournament spots was difficult. Comparing "long runs" to "bunches of awards" is an inexact science. However, after multiple versions, we believe the current format to be as logical and fair as possible. For those who may be in disbelief that WICKED is seeded 3rd in the "West Side" grouping, note that it has less awards and shorter Broadway runs than both #1s, both #2s, and the #3 from the "East Side" grouping. And, while THE PRODUCERS clearly has won more awards by far than anyone else...it wasn't #1 in the "East Side" bracket because it was the #21longest running show on Broadway compared to THE LION KING's #9 longest run.
   
   
   
8. After The Championship has concluded, the person whose bracket has scored the most points will win the MARY POPPINS package!* The winner* will be announced on Facebook once office personnel have had a chance to tally all of the points on each bracket form and determine a winner!

* In the event multiple people have the same identical high-score, the contest winner will be determined by choosing, from that group of same-score brackets, the individual who correctly predicted the most battles. In the event a tie still exists at that point, a winner will be selected, from those remaining in the tie, by our company President. Brackets not filled out completely will not be considered.

Download your tournament bracket form

PS: Remember to submit the completed form by clicking on the "Submit via Email" button ON THE FORM

Have fun! - DSM Steve

For questions please email us at webinfo at dallassummermusicals.org

FORM SUBMISSION TIPS & HELP

When you click on the "submit via email" button on the tournament bracket form, you'll see a responsive message (like the one below) asking what type of email program you use.

Option #1, "Desktop Email Application" is pretty self-explanatory. It's for email programs like MS Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, or some kind of installed mail program. If you select this one, the rest of the process is automated and you won't have to do anything else! The screen looks like this:

If you need to choose the 2nd option, "Internet Email" (gmail, yahoo, msn, or other web-based emails), I found, during testing, that it's easier to open another web browser and log in to your email in that one; having both browser windows side by side.

In short, you will save a copy of your bracket to your computer, then open a new email to us, and attach the PDF file of your bracket to the email. Then send.

Here is more detailed instructions should you need them.

1. When you see the instructions (like the ones below) stop and open another internet browser.
2. Log in to your web email account
3. Begin a new blank email
4. Go back to the original internet browser when the instructions are visible and click on "Save PDF File".
5. When asked where to save the file, select a destination you can easily find, like the "desktop"
6. Return to internet browser window #2 (where your blank email is waiting) and enter the "To", "Subject" & "Message" information from the instructions in to the matching areas of your blank email.
7. Attach the PDF you saved in #5, above, to the email.
8. Hit send!

For questions please email us at webinfo at dallassummermusicals.org

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