“Of all the Tonys that will be presented Sunday night on CBS, only one — best musical — usually spikes the box office.” But getting a musical number featured on the Tony telecast can also get the box office humming…
Tag: 06.07.11
More TV Pilots (But LA Is Home To Fewer Of Them)
“Thanks to a boom in cable TV production, and cable comedies in particular, the most recent pilot season — which typically runs January through April in advance of screenings for advertisers in May — was the most productive on record, with 169 pilots produced for the 2010/2011 development season.”
I’m SOOOOO Bored! (And This Is Good)
“The possibility of boredom only emerges once enough people have the security, leisure, and comfort to complain that security, leisure, and comfort aren’t everything. This coincides with, and is reinforced by, the rapidly expanding market for novels, with their reminder that one’s life could be much more interesting than (alas) it usually is.”
National Theatre Conservatory Dies
“A last-ditch attempt to save the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ prestigious National Theatre Conservatory masters program died today when University of Denver Chancellor Robert Coombe announced his decision not to take the conservatory program under the wing of DU’s theater department.”
Rescue Of 350,000 Books Proves To Be Huge Storage Problem For Rural Saskatchewan Woman
“We’re talking 30 tonnes of books. The weight of the books is pulling the house apart. The books range from old textbooks to volumes of Shakespeare to ‘How-To’ manuals. Shaunna Raycraft tried selling the books on eBay, and to collectors and used book stores, but no one wants the task of sorting through them.”
French Regulators Ban Broadcasters From Promoting Their Twitter, Facebook Feeds
“France’s audiovisual authority says that TV and radio stations that promote their sites on the two gargantuan social media services on air are actually engaging in secret — and unfair — advertising. Some French bloggers, bemoaning that their country seems out of touch with the Digital Age, pilloried what it considered an antiquated stance.”
The Dissonance Of Our Information Culture
“Reading online is, we know, a keyword-driven process, and the reader (this reader) has to exert near-constant mental counter-pressure — drive with his foot on the brakes, as it were — if he is to read words on screen in the way that he once, when younger and more assiduous, read words in books.”
Getty Acquires Major 20th-Century Art Archive
“Harald Szeemann, the famed Swiss art curator, left behind a trove of documents, books and correspondence when he died in 2005. His personal archive, which cut a scholarly swath through much of 20th century Western art, will have a new home at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, starting in September.”
New York Philharmonic Calls Off Free Parks Concerts This Summer
“Citing unspecified scheduling conflicts, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra announced Tuesday that it would not be presenting its traditional Concerts in the Parks Series this summer.” There will be one free concert with crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli in September.
There’s Now An App For The Waste Land
“Faber takes TS Eliot into the 21st century today, with the launch, in association with Touch Press, of an iPad app of The Waste Land that includes a video performance of the poem, notes, commentary and readings from Viggo Mortensen, Ted Hughes, and Eliot himself.”