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Tag: 08.12.10
“Glee” A Big Influence At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
“The multi award-winning TV series, about a gang of high school misfits who join the school’s show choir – or Glee club – and serve a weekly helping of re-invented classic songs and big musical numbers, seems to have reinvigorated interest in music theatre at the Fringe.”
This Year’s Booker Longlist Is A Bestseller
“The 13 novels being considered for this year’s Man Booker prize are selling better than any other longlist since 2001.”
What Worked For “Reality” Art Show Might Doom It
“This may be the internal paradox that dooms Work of Art: The very qualities that make for entertaining reality-TV – excessiveness, stupid obviousness, gracelessness under pressure – work against the creation of good art, unless you’re Andy Warhol or Jeff Koons or Julian Schnabel.”
Film and Television Producer David L. Wolper, 82
While he is remembered for such movies as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and L.A. Confidential, Wolper’s biggest impact was made with the miniseries Roots, “one of the turning points of American television.”
How B&N’s B&Ms (Bricks-and-Mortar) Face the E-Book Revolution
“At the expansive Barnes & Noble store in Manhattan’s Union Square, the changes sweeping the company and the industry are on full display. Shelves have been stripped bare to make room for toys and games.” And this fall, the chain “will begin building 1,000-square-foot boutiques to showcase the Nook in all of its outlets.”
Fran and Barry Weissler Have a Theater in Their Back Yard
Once the Broadway producers purchased a country estate with the profits from their revival of Chicago (and its various offspring), as Barry puts it, “I thought it would be great to have a private outdoor theater.” And now they have one, just past the French-style formal garden.
The Summer-in-the-City Site-Specific Dance Piece
“Now expanded from 12 minutes to 30, [Noémie Lafrance’s] Melt features seven dancers who will dissolve – this is an occasion in which the hotter it is, the better – at the salt pile under the Manhattan Bridge.”