The Playhouse has 668 seats. On opening night, 343 tickets were spoken for. Of those, 256 were comps. “That was an epic fail,” John Cassini says. “To come out … and see those empty seats, I’ve got to say, in the first couple of minutes of the show, I think we were all, as actors, a little shocked.”
Tag: 04.26.12
Why TV Isn’t Going To Die
“Right now, with such online services as YouTube and Hulu holding “upfront” presentations to advertisers in New York, the chatter about the end of TV rises noisily again. Much of the chatter is absurdly out of touch with the realities of human nature, technology and consumerism. TV isn’t dead or dying, and here’s why.”
Major Publisher Decides To Release E-Books With No Copy Restrictions
“Tor, the world’s biggest science fiction publisher and home to authors including Orson Scott Card, China Miéville and Cory Doctorow, has shaken publishing with the news that its entire list of ebooks is to be made digital rights management-free.”
New Music Biz Reality: Singles Sell, Albums Don’t
“If you used to have a big single, you would sell a million albums, and if you sell a million albums and you’re a band, you can probably not have to work for a couple years. We don’t have that luxury.”
NEA Sharply Cuts Grants To PBS
“The National Endowment for the Arts made sweeping cuts in its support of established PBS shows on Wednesday, and for the first time awarded significant grants to an array of gaming, mobile and Web-based projects.”
Louisville Orchestra And Musicians Agree On One-Year Contract
“After 20 months of contentious negotiations, the Louisville Orchestra’s musicians and its management have reached a one-year labor agreement that will allow for a 30-week season beginning this fall, and both sides are optimistic that a long-term deal will be reached by next spring” under binding arbitration.
Why Soprano Karita Mattila Is Such A Good Actress
On Uta Hagen: “She is my big idol and hero, and she writes things in those books that everybody should read, especially young singers.”
Sissy Spacek Is Too Sane To Be An Actress At All
On taking classes at the Actors’ Studio: “The irony is that I only studied there several months. I never got into scene class. I remember looking around saying, ‘I’m much too well-adjusted to be doing this’.”
The Problem Of The Stein Siblings, And The Problem Of Modernism
Leo Stein might have had questionable artistic taste from time to time, but Gertrude Stein’s apparent collaboration during WWII give many of us pause.