“The five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald will make an unexpected return to Broadway this spring – in time to qualify for the 2014 Tonys – to play Billie Holiday in the musical play Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.”
Tag: 02.25.14
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.25.14
Not Just Bad for Business
AJBlog: Audience Wanted | Published 2014-02-25
Blow the past open
AJBlog: Performance Monkey | Published 2014-02-25
Community Adopted: Grasshopper Bridge by Ed Carpenter
AJBlog: Aesthetic Grounds | Published 2014-02-25
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Colburn School Hires Former NYCity Ballet Dancer To Head New School
“Jenifer Ringer, who retired this month from New York City Ballet, has been appointed head of the Colburn Dance Academy. The Colburn School, where music, dance and drama are currently taught, is starting the new, more specialized program in the fall, in partnership with the L.A. Dance Project and its director, Benjamin Millepied.”
New $300 Million Movie Museum – Battling For The Soul Of A Story
“Even as the museum hurtles toward ground-breaking later this year, what remains unresolved is exactly what it will be: an elevated backlot tour designed to celebrate Hollywood and pack in tourists, an important institution devoted to telling the real and not-always-laudatory history of film, or a potentially awkward hybrid?”
Ballet Star Attacked And Robbed Just Before Performance
Dominic Antonucci, one of ballet’s biggest stars, “was attacked and robbed by a group as he took a walk in a park, just before the company was due to perform on stage.”
Inside Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Biggest Flop
“Lord Lloyd-Webber is a pick-yourself-up-and-dust-yourself-down kind of guy. He is also getting used to these kinds of box-office rebuffs – his last triumph, as he himself pointed out, was 20 years ago with Sunset Boulevard.”
Why Musicians Are Souring On Facebook As A Way To Promote Their Work
What once was a level playing field is now skewed by algorithms that favor the “haves” over the “have nots.” While it makes good business sense for Facebook, making artists, businesses and brands pay to “promote” content has taken some of the sheen off the Facebook experience.
Report From A Protest: Guggenheim Pays Its Security Guards $10/Hour
“In the course of the Saturday protest, we were outraged to learn about the inadequate pay of the museum’s security guards. As part of their efforts to keep us and the priceless art on display safe, they are paid a mere ten dollars an hour by one of the wealthiest institutions in New York and indeed globally.”
The Economics Of Poverty (Or How Writing My Book Made Me Poor)
In 2008 I sold a book-in-progress for $200,000 ($170,000 after commission, to be paid in four installments), which still seems to me like a lot of money. At the time, though, it seemed infinite. The resulting book—a “paperback original,” as they’re called—has sold around 8,000 copies, which is about a fifth of what it needed to sell not to be considered a flop. This essentially guarantees that no one will ever pay me that kind of money to write a book again.
Photographer Finds Men Jackhammering A Banksy Out Of A Wall
The photographer got word of the Banksy removal via social media. He said that despite being busy with other projects, he grabbed his cameras and headed for what locals call the ‘Umbrella Girl.’ When he arrived, he said he saw that “guys had shown up and were chopping the Banksy out of the wall.”