But some Broadway veterans suspect it is a harbinger.

"He was always a loner," said the Broadway veteran.

Most Broadway veterans trace the change to the steep rise, over the last decade or so, in the cost of a ticket.

For some Off Broadway veterans, silliness goes with the territory.

Despite the windfall, Broadway veterans said the record might be quickly forgotten in coming days of winter.

Other Broadway veterans, however, said that the lack of a nomination for "Big" did not fully explain its death.

Some Broadway veterans maintain the Pulitzer has little meaning in the selling of a show.

Throughout the day, the parties involved and Broadway veterans were trying to figure out what went wrong.

"The vultures have been perched all summer," said one Broadway veteran.

This was the start of what some Broadway veterans think of as Livent's financial game-playing.