Cry-Baby,” a musical based on the John Waters movie of the same name, will close Sunday after 113 performances at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre. It probably will have lost its entire $10-million-plus capitalization.
Month: June 2008
A New Kind Of Arts Center?
“The Public was supposed to be a new kind of arts centre, a civic landmark that would leapfrog its home, West Bromwich, into a new cultural league and regenerate the entire region. And who better to design it than Will Alsop, the London-based architect who doesn’t so much think outside the box as paint the box a crazy colour and put it on wonky stilts several storeys above the street?”
Music Blogs Get A Toehold
“Fortune 500 companies are waking up to the fact that young hipsters are congregating on MP3 blogs. This is an extremely desirable demographic for many of these companies. The people who troll for music on MP3 blogs tend to be tastemakers who wield considerable influence over their peers. But they’re also difficult to reach through traditional media.”
Met Opera Insider Reveals Company’s Turnaround Blueprint
“There seems to be enough data now to demonstrate that the Battleship Met has indeed turned around. Just two years ago, every indicator for the Met Opera was pointing down. And now they’re all pointing up — attendance, subscriptions, sellouts, philanthropy. And if one looks at that ephemeral quality associated with success — buzz — the Met now has it again. In fact, the Met has become the hot cultural ticket in town.”
TKTS Sets Up Shop In Brooklyn
“The non-profit Theatre Development Fund runs two TKTS Booths in Manhattan offering tickets up to 50% off regular price. More than 50 million tickets have been sold since TKTS first opened in 1973. TKTS doesn’t offer any tickets to Brooklyn events, but that too is about to change.”
How The US Military Uses Music To Torture
Ultimately, though, the most overused torture song is I Love You by Barney the Purple Dinosaur. On the face of it, the lyrics may seem deeply inappropriate: “I love you, you love me – we’re a happy family./With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you,/Won’t you say you love me too?”, but anyone whose child watches the television programme will know how grating
it is. In the torture trade, this is called “futility music”, designed to convince the prisoner of the futility of maintaining his position.
Who Owns Music
“In the music world, recording technology has greatly complicated the issues of ownership, authorship, and proprietary rights by simplifying the acquisition of creative property. Since the rise of sampling and downloading, digital technology has transferred many of the privileges of authorship from what was once an elite of professional musicians to the iPod-ed masses.”
Harvard Museums Under One Roof
After many years and many false starts, Harvard is finally launching a major expansion of its art museums. In the process, what have been three separate institutions — the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum — will be consolidated under one roof, and one name: the Harvard Art Museum.
Groups End Fight To Stop Barnes Collection Move
“Along with Montgomery County government, the citizens’ group was fighting to keep one of the world’s premier collections of Impressionist art from moving to Philadelphia despite what Albert C. Barnes ordered in his will before he died in 1951.”
US Government Eyes Non-Profit Endowments (Warning!)
“There is a mindset that believes that the granting of a tax exemption entitles the government to control how the resources of the nonprofit sector are to be spent. This raises questions about the compact made with the American people when the income tax was first imposed. There were understandings at the time, one of which was that nonprofit institutions carrying out charitable functions would be exempted from the income tax.”