“We want to do a video game where kids can experience what it’s like to audition on one of these reality shows. I have discussed this with the Really Useful Group and we can use the songs to musicals like Cats and Starlight Express.
Tag: 07.19.09
Glimmers Of A Better Time For Off-Broadway
“Over the past year we’ve seen a few encouraging signs that good work can have a viable life away from the box-office-burnishing glow of Broadway.”
When Authors Attack
“In the interactive and speedy environment of the blogosphere, audience participation influences and alters the course of events in a way that, whether one is committed to preserving the authority of traditional media or to its eventual erosion, is undeniably interesting.”
Author Frank McCourt, 78
“Until his mid-60s, Frank McCourt was known primarily around New York as a creative writing teacher and as a local character — the kind who might turn up in a New York novel — singing songs and telling stories with his younger brother Malachy and otherwise joining the crowds at the White Horse Tavern and other literary hangouts.”
Recording Companies Court The Casual Pirates
“Over the past year, as sales of CDs have continued to fall and paid-for downloads from services like Apple’s iTunes have fallen short of hopes, record companies have moved to embrace casual file-sharers. Legal services offering free, unlimited streaming of music, rather than downloads, are proliferating. According to a survey published last week, they are taking some of the wind out of the pirates’ sails.”
Nobel Writer Seamus Heaney At 70
“For someone who has been so remorselessly scrutinised, Heaney is still something of an enigma. He works hard to make “famous” seem normal. Unfailingly courteous and attentive, he can also be grave, remote and occasionally stern, always watching himself, like the king of a vulnerable monarchy.”
Museum Sues Website For Uploading Images
“That action unleashed outrage in cyberspace and quickly led to a stand-off between the proponents of free information and cultural institutions wanting to protect one of their few revenue streams – licence fees for reproducing images of their artworks. The row also goes to the heart of an internet revolution which does not recognise borders or national laws.”
American Ballet Theatre – All About The Dancers
“Ballet is an addictive art. There are fans who do not miss a single Ballet Theater performance in New York; if you think that dancers are what matter most in ballet, this spring season was the stuff to win you over to their line of thinking.”
When The Drama Critic Writes For The Theatre
“Many critics have managed to write well about the arts while keeping their creative maidenheads intact. But most of the best ones — including [Kenneth] Tynan himself — have had at least some professional experience in at least one of the art forms about which they write.”