Barrrett is currently married to retired prominent New York dentist and theater aficionado, Stuart S. Leichter.

For nine months of the year - and especially June through September when the outdoor stage is open - Ashland hums with theater aficionados.

LIKE most hard-core theater aficionados, Ethan Mordden has deeply held and often blistering opinions.

But theater aficionados may know him best as the author of "The Old Settler," a portrait of an African-American woman battling spinsterhood.

The Little is also the home of the Little Theatre Film Society, a group of theater aficionados in the Rochester area.

A show about the travails of working as a producer in the famously fickle and giddily glamorous business of Broadway could make juicy entertainment for theater aficionados.

The original cast album has long been championed by musical theater aficionados, who have pondered the why's and wherefore's of the production's failure.

And because it has too long had a high place on the wish lists of musical theater aficionados.

The curtain itself has long been known to theater aficionados, but its authorship is not widely known.

That two musical productions of rare excellence are now playing on those stages happens to be the sort of blessed confluence of events a musical theater aficionado dreams of.