“The average cost of a ticket will be one-third lower next season, and the cost of some seats will fall by more than half. A $53 main floor ticket will now cost $25. The Dress Circle seats, the best in the house, will fall from $71 to $50. The cheapest seat will cost $15.”
Tag: 05.08.11
Denver’s New Clyfford Still Museum Set To Open November 18
“The first of the museum’s rotating exhibitions will feature about 108 selections by the famed abstract expressionist artist, including 60 canvases, 45 works on paper and all three of his sculptures. Also on view will be letters and other highlights from Still’s archives.”
E-Books Are Changing Publishing. Get Over It
“Self-published authors are putting downward pressure on publishers to reduce the price of their books. More important is the fact that a growing number of readers, especially younger ones, are savvy consumers and many have figured out that it’s not really necessary to buy every book that piques your interest.”
Study: Parents Admit They Use TV As Baby Sitter
“Some 70% of the 1,000 mothers and fathers polled as part of the national year of communication say they do not feel guilty about allowing their children to watch TV. And 42% think it is a great way for children to learn, the poll suggests.”
Warner Music Sold For $3.3 Billion (What’s Next?)
“Warner’s all-cash sale to the New York-based oil and media conglomerate, announced Friday, puts Access Industries founder Len Blavatnik in the pole position to bid for EMI, the world’s fourth-largest music company, numerous industry analysts said.”
100 Years Of America’s Musical History In A Bunker
“The bunkers are a repository containing nearly 100 miles of shelves stacked with some 6 million items: reels of film; kinescopes; videotape and screenplays; magnetic audiotape; wax cylinders; shellac, metal and vinyl discs; wire recordings; paper piano rolls; photographs; manuscripts; and other materials. In short, a century’s worth of the nation’s musical and cinematic legacy.”
BBC Proms Tickets Fly Out The Door In Record Whoosh
“More than 85,000 were shifted – up by 7% compared with last year – and 376 tickets were sold every minute in the first hour. The series of classical music concerts take place from 15 July at London’s Royal Albert Hall.”
China Bans TV Detective Shows
“China has ordered TV stations across the country not to air any detective shows, spy thrillers or dramas about time-travel for the next three months. All have been ordered off-air with immediate effect.”
The Formidable Mr. Laurents
“Arthur Laurents, who died Thursday as an exceptionally young nonagenarian, was one musical theater writer who was impossible to overlook. Dismiss him — and how could you dismiss the man who wrote the books for “West Side Story” and “Gypsy”? — and you’d have your head handed to you, no matter if you were a lowly reviewer or a formidable diva.”
The New Iraq Stages Its First Book Fair
“The two-week exhibition featured more than 200 publishing houses from 32 countries displaying about 37,000 books at a massive conference hall in Mansur, west Baghdad, according to the event’s organisers.”