“Start with a rich investor unknown to clubby Broadway insiders – a mystery man named Paul Abrams. Go on to the astounding sum he is said to have promised to raise for Rebecca: $4.5 million … Then: Reports in August of his sudden death in Britain of malaria – yet no obituaries, no death notices. A representative for the Abrams estate surfaces … who refuses to speak by phone and uses an e-mail address created just last month.”