In an age when high-cost mega-musicals dominate Broadway and success depends on luring in the tourists for high-price seats, shows are increasingly turning to familiar TV stars to bring in the crowds. Elbowed aside is the traditional Broadway acting pool. – New York Times
Month: January 2000
DOT-COMS INVADE PARK CITY
Maybe it’s the legacy of “Blair Witch” – internet companies have commanded much of the attention at this year’s Sundance Festival. – Los Angeles Times 01/25/00
AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR
Time Warner/EMI merger shrinks the major record-company field to four players. Can you say “oligopoly?” – Boston Herald 01/25/00
- Huge internet music market was key to the deal. – BBC 01/25/00
21ST-CENTURY GOLD RUSH
The digital age is turning TV and movies upside down. Some think the cyber-revolution will be “as radical as the shift from radio to TV. – CBC 01/25/00
DENUDING A PUBLIC TRUST
Canada’s CBC television network told to strip itself of what its audiences seem to watch most – American movies and hockey. Make it less commercial, say regulators. Suicide, reply network execs. – New York Times 01/25/00
BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING
Technology lets marketers know what radio station you’re listening to as you pull into their parking lot. Privacy watchdogs cry foul. – Wired 01/25/00
CALL TO CLOSE COVENT GARDEN
Musicians’ and technicians’ unions call for temporary closure of troubled Covent Garden to deal with technical problems. Rebuilt opera house has been plagued with technical equipment failures since reopening last month. – The Independent
- Don’t blame Opera House staff, blame those in charge. – The Observer 01/24/00
BOULEZ – THE FINAL TOUR
In his 75th year, Pierre Boulez goes on a conducting tour. Then, he says, from 2001 on, he’ll stop conducting. – London Telegraph
BETWEEN OPERA AND MUSICAL
Just where is the line between them? – New York Times
LOW-END ART
London’s TAG Sales, founded five years ago, “make lips curl in the upper echelons of the art market, but they have found their niche. They are part of a growing market in affordable art aimed at people with a limited knowledge of art and even less confidence about buying it from traditional galleries, but who have vacant wall space and disposable income.” – The Telegraph (UK)