This past season, UK actors cleaned up on Broadway. “Now British theater is readying a new attempt to conquer Broadway–with an arsenal that includes Jude Law, Stephen Sondheim and a crew of animal puppets.”
Tag: 07.17.09
A Record Year For UK Movie Box Office?
“Overall box office takings are already almost £100 million up on what they were this time last year. Admissions between January and May 2009 were up 16% on the same period in 2008.”
How Will The New WQXR Sound?
“Pledge drives instead of commercials. A greater focus on New York instead of a more generic classical-music sound. Longer works and fewer brownie-sized pieces. The possible loss of well-known honeyed voices.”
Ballet BC’s Former AD Wins Preliminary Court Claim
“A court has granted Ballet British Columbia’s former artistic director the right to add his cancelled contract to the company’s list of debts.” John Alleyne’s claim for nearly C$143,000 “was based on his employment contract, which required 12 months notice or payment in lieu of notice.”
Music For Athletes, Lost Prokofiev Work, Has Premiere In Princeton
“When Soviet officials organized an athletics spectacle in 1939 to mobilize youth, complete with 30,000 ‘physical culturists,’ Sergei Prokofiev composed music for the event. But when the event’s choreographer, Vsevolod Meyerhold, vanished before the premiere, Music for Athletes went unheard. Tonight marks its first performance.”
Proposed Arts Center Near Ground Zero May Not Be Dead After All
“The long-delayed Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center site is making a comeback. A new proposal would rescue the PAC from the tangle of infrastructure in the middle of the Trade Center site and plunk it down where the Deutsche Bank building currently stands. The move would allow construction on the PAC to begin far earlier than previously contemplated.”
‘What? Opera In Ramallah?’
“[A]s the creme-de-la-creme of Tel Aviv society thronged … to get tickets for the premiere of La Scala Milano’s production of Aida, … on Tuesday evening [in Ramallah], as the excited announcer declared in both English and Arabic, the curtain rose on the ‘world premiere’ of the first Palestinian opera in Arabic, called The Story Behind the Tale.”