WHAT can be more dispiriting for a musical theater devotee than to hear singing, only to discover there's no one there?

For theater devotees who never make it to Times Square, these shows bring Broadway home.

By April, a microcosm of musical theater devotees is expected to descend on Millburn.

The offbeat ("Side Show") is a fiasco and musical theater devotees' dreams are represented by the revival (the re-imagined "Cabaret" and the imagination-deprived "Sound of Music").

Harold Steinberg, a New York real-estate entrepreneur and theater devotee, established the trust during his lifetime, though it was largely inactive.

Sad to say, the musical theater devotee is not twice blessed.

A demanding musical theater devotee could get upset by such a pedestrian, sentimentalized and complacent staging.

The company, a longtime bastion of downtown hipness for experimental theater devotees, has always specialized in mixed-media collages that reflect a world of ever-shifting, technologically generated ephemera.

So despite the alarm of theater devotees, the field is still dominated by new works.

Several major groups were putting on plays, but the notice they were receiving was largely parochial, extending barely beyond the Village's limits and primarily involving theater devotees.