“NYC and London-based Supervision Media and New York’s Broadway Worldwide have signed an exclusive multi-year licensing arrangement to bring four hit Broadway musicals to cinema screens across the globe.”
Tag: 09.23.11
Lion King 3D Tops Box Office
“The re-issue of The Lion King has made $61.7m (£39.9m) since its release. The original film came out in 1994 and was re-released for the first time in 2002. The 3D version has surpassed expectations, according to Disney. Its head of distribution, Dave Hollis, said the studio will leave the film in cinemas longer than its planned two-week run.”
Cesaria Evora Abruptly Retires Due To Ill Health
The renowned Cape Verdean singer, who is now 70 and underwent open-heart surgery last year, and her manager “decided to end her career, and give up this wandering life that has taken her to the four corners of the world.”
Anthony Gormley Rearranges The Hermitage
“Two entire galleries have been under [the British sculptor’s] firm control for some months now. The lighting has been changed, venerable objects have been shifted in and out. Even a floor has been raised. … It is the first time a living artist has been allowed to intervene with the Hermitage’s collection in this way.”
Revisiting The Playboy Of The Western World Riots
“Ireland in 1907 saw itself as ready for self-rule and it expected its artists to promote the image of a steady, sober, self-reliant people. Instead, with The Playboy of the Western World,, Synge gave them a play in which a village loon splits his father’s head open … and is promptly installed as a hero by excitable women and drunken men.”
Covent Garden Launches Worldwide Cinema Program
“London’s Royal Opera House has launched an ambitious programme of cinema screenings, including a production of Madam Butterfly shot in 3D. Ten operas and ballets will be shown in more than 700 cinemas in 22 countries during the 2011-2012 season.”
Students Occupy Scotland’s Royal Conservatoire Over Tuition Hike
“Around 30 undergraduates staged a short sit-in at Scotland’s leading performing arts academy in Glasgow after it became the latest institution to announce fees of £9000 a year for students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.”
How Humans Changed Time, And Time Changed Humans
“In 2000 BCE or 850 CE there was no culturally agreed-upon 1:37 p.m. It simply did not exist and it could not have existed. We invented it and all of the time-behavior that goes with it. Then we used that time to imagine entire new ecosystems of human activity into existence.”
Neuropsychology And Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’
Maria Popova “unpack[s] the verses to explore the scientific wisdom they contain in the context of several studies that offer lab-tested validation for McFerrin’s intuitive insight.”