The Met’s Coming Rebranding: A Puzzlement
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Eifman Ballet’s ‘Psychiatric’ Problem
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Alternative to Despair
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Act of worship
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Tag: 06.09.15
Tony TV Ratings Slip Again
“The ratings for the live ceremony hosted by Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth are close to the all-time low for the Tonys, which was 6 million in 2012. Final numbers will be issued Tuesday. Among viewers ages 18 to 49, the demographic preferred by advertisers, the telecast earned a .9 rating.”
The Tonys Seem To Be Afraid Of Its Own History (Fear Over Ratings?)
“Recognizing history is something the Tonys, in recent years, have become not just indifferent to but openly fearful about. The thinking is all terror-based: Ratings have fallen from decades past; the telecast skews old; young people must be entertained at all costs.”
TV Execs Talk About The Difficulties Of Reaching And Keeping Audiences
“If you make a show for a certain audience, you want to make sure you get that audience,” he says, going on to explain that this is pointedly different from the old model of trying to pull in as many viewers as possible.
How Big Is The Tony Effect? ‘Fun Home’ Quadruples Sales
“The Tony Award for best new musical … is likely to be a major turning point, allowing the production to reach new markets, and new audiences, that might have been initially put off by its searing exploration of sexuality and suicide.”
‘A Cross Between The New Criterion And Mad Magazine’: Half Of Komar And Melamid Launches New Art Mag
“As the artist-provocateur Alexander Melamid sees it, modern art is deathly ill, but he thinks he has the cure. It is Artenol, his new quarterly magazine, described on its website as ‘a purgative for an ailing art world, a palliative for afflicted aesthetes.'”