Editing Internet Broadway Database (section)

==History==
Karen Hauser, research director for the [[Broadway League]], developed the Internet Broadway Database, which was launched in 1996 or 2001.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ostermiller |first=Hillary |title=Research Guides: Musical Theatre: History & Bios |url=https://libguides.colum.edu/musicaltheatre/history |access-date=2023-10-01 |website=libguides.colum.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref name="curtis">{{Cite news |last=Curtis |first=Mary Jo |date=2007-04-21 |title=Everything You Wanted to Know About Broadway |language=en |work=Brown Alumni Magazine |url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2007-04-21/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-broadway |access-date=2022-05-22}}</ref> Prior to that, she served  as the League's media director.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2006-06-14 |title=New Study Reveals Economic Health of Touring Broadway |language=en |work=Broadway World |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/New-Study-Reveals-Economic-Health-of-Touring-Broadway-20060614 |access-date=2022-05-22}}</ref> She has written on the economic health of Broadway and how it contributes to New York City's economy as well as that of the cities that touring productions visit.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hauser |first=Karen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AhtwmAEACAAJ |title=Broadway's Economic Contribution to NYC |date=February 2012 |publisher=Broadway League, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-9846323-2-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hauser |first=Karen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWcFHQAACAAJ |title=Safety in Numbers: An Analysis of Group Sales Activity for Broadway Shows |date=1999 |publisher=League of American Theatres and Producers |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=HAUSER |first=KAREN |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8F2PxgEACAAJ |title=The Economic Impact of Touring Broadway |date=2019-06-30 |publisher=Broadway League, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-9973744-7-6 |language=en}}</ref> Hauser co-produced the 2000 production of [[Keith Reddin]]'s ''The Perpetual Patient''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-08-12 |title=The Perpetual Patient Is Discharged OOB, Aug. 12 |url=https://playbill.com/article/the-perpetual-patient-is-discharged-oob-aug-12-com-91217 |access-date=2023-09-30 |website=Playbill}}</ref>