“Met spokeswoman Lee Abrahamian said a malfunctioning encoding sensor in one of the set’s 24 aluminum planks was discovered Saturday morning as the stage was being put in place. The performance started at 12:44 p.m. — 35 minutes later than the Met planned to begin — and ended about 45 minutes behind schedule at 5:50 p.m.”
Tag: 05.15.11
Opera Is Attracting New Generations
“As the Glyndebourne Festival gets under way in East Sussex next Saturday, companies are throwing off the genre’s fusty, elitist image and attracting more twenty-somethings with cut-price tickets and innovative schemes to broaden opera’s appeal. Glyndebourne is enjoying record box office sales, up 8 per cent on the same time last year.”
How To Create A Broadway Showstopper Moment
It’s a cooly calculated process…
Garrison Keillor Looks For A Successor
“A lot of work went into getting the show to this point, over 30-some years, and why should one waste all of that work simply because one person, the weak link, the host, decides to go off and sail the Caribbean, or go off and write his memoirs that nobody would particularly want to read, why should this come to an end? And the answer is that it shouldn’t, at least without a good fight.”
Can A Film Be So Scandalous That It Shouldn’t Be Seen?
A Spanish prosecutor charges a filmmaker over scenes of simulated child porn.
TV 50 Years After The Great “Vast Wasteland”
“Everyone remembers the two words that entered the cultural lexicon afterward: “vast wasteland.” But few remember why Newton N. Minow’s sermonette caused such a sensation at the time. Even fewer can recall the sweeping promises the FCC chairman made in that speech or that he failed to deliver on any of them.”
Study: Disclosure Doesn’t Necessarily Resolve Conflicts Of Interest
“Some uncomfortable truths: Disclosure doesn’t solve problems the way we think it does, and in fact it can actually backfire. Coming clean about conflicts of interest, they find, can promote less ethical behavior by advisers.”
Stripping Away 400 Years Of Shakespeare
“We very much don’t want to do a 21st-century idea of a 16th-century idea of late-15th-century England — because I don’t know what that is. And you know what? No one else does, actually.”
Azerbaijan Wins Eurovision Song Contest
It is the first time that Azerbaijan has won the contest in its 56-year history, having only joined Eurovision in 2008.
What’s New On Broadway? Good Original Material (For A Change)
Ben Brantley: “[For] at least a couple of decades the commercial New York theater’s main business has been recycling, and not just old plays and musicals but also old movie and television scripts and even, I might add, old stars. … But take a stroll around the Square or through Shubert Alley today … and you’ll note a surprising tang of freshness emanating from the posters and billboards there.”