“As Fox aims for a ratings bonanza from Sunday’s live telecast of ‘The Passion’ — a modern-dress musical production featuring pop stars Trisha Yearwood, Seal and Chris Daughtry — staged Passion plays across the country say they are facing dwindling audiences and a challenging financial environment.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Arts Organizations Can’t Toss Out The Past If They Want To Succeed In The Future
“The tricky part of this equation is that it is difficult (some would say impossible) to reinvent yourself while maintaining a structure that allows you to hold on to that existing well of loyalty.”
City Eliminates Funding For Libraries. Volunteers Say They’ll Keep Them Going
“In 2015 the Labour-run city council agreed the libraries should no longer be funded and managed by the authority as part of budget savings. Volunteers will staff the buildings, while the books and equipment remain owned by the council.”
Protesting The Museum To Make It Moral
“That museums are now targets says something about their newly perceived status. Once considered standoffish, genteel and politically marginal, they are now viewed as being emblematically engaged players within the power network of global capitalism. And some are seen as using that status badly.”
Having Killed The Mass-Market Paperback Of ‘Mockingbird’, HarperCollins Will Discount Trade Paperback For Schools
“HarperCollins will offer a discount on its trade paperback of Harper Lee’s 1960 classic To Kill a Mockingbird through retail accounts that sell directly to schools. The announcement came days after the news broke that the cheaper, mass-market paperback edition, which is popular in schools, would be discontinued next month.”
Hollywood Gives Cold Shoulder To Plan To Release Movies Simultaneously In Theatres And For Home
“More sophisticated window modeling may be needed for the growing success of a modern movie industry. Those models should be developed by distributors and exhibitors in company-to-company discussions, not by a third party.”
Spanish Town Loved The Tourists Attracted By Botched Fresco Restoration. How Do We Keep Them Coming?
“Borja Mayor Eduardo Arilla said 160,000 people had come to see the fresco since the story of Cecilia Gimenez’s restoration of a Christ fresco in a town sanctuary went viral in 2012. He said with the new center, the town hoped to keep attracting up to 30,000 visitors annually.”
Research: Music Is Inherently A Social Experience (Even When You Listen On Earbuds, Alone)
“Recent looks at the evolution and neurology of music suggest we are not waltzing by ourselves. Musical experiences are inherently social, scientists tell us, even when they happen in private. When we listen alone, we feel together.”
Stephen Sondheim Says UK Audiences Listen Better Than Americans
“Of course British audiences are different from Americans: they listen. You have many centuries of being interested in the language. That’s true, and not as true as the United States. And when you care about the language like I do, it’s so much more gratifying.” (includes buried lede)
Is This The Solution To The Cellphones-In-The-Audience Problem?
“Audience members using cellphones bedevil performers and presenters around the world. But in China, theaters and other venues have adopted what they say is an effective – others might say disturbing – solution. Zap them with a laser beam.”