“The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced on Monday that it will delay the opening of its 70th anniversary season, sending patrons a rather downbeat email announcing that it had ‘regretfully’ postponed all concerts… through November 8.”
Tag: 09.22.14
Pa. Drama Teacher Fired Over “Spamalot” Controversy
“[South Williamsport, Pennsylvania] school officials on Friday dismissed the show’s director after months of back-and-forth arguments – which drew unflattering media attention – over whether the [high school] principal canceled Spamalot because of the show’s gay content.”
Disney/Taymor “Lion King” Is Now Top-Earning Title In Any Medium
“With a worldwide gross of over $6.2 billion, The Lion King stage musical has now achieved the most successful box office total of any work in any media in entertainment history. … The show quietly took over top spot from the $6 billion-earning The Phantom of the Opera late this summer.”
NY Times Public Editor Slams Article About Shonda Rhimes
“The readers and commentators are correct to protest this story. Intended to be in praise of Ms. Rhimes, it delivered that message in a condescending way that was – at best – astonishingly tone-deaf and out of touch.” (includes responses from the Culture Editor and the article’s writer, TV critic Alessandra Stanley)
Alessandra Stanley Says She Meant To Praise Shonda Rhimes, She Was Just Being “Arch”
“In the review, I referenced a painful and insidious stereotype solely in order to praise Ms. Rhimes and her shows for traveling so far from it. … I didn’t think Times readers would take the opening sentence literally because I so often write arch, provocative ledes that are then undercut or mitigated by the paragraphs that follow.”
García Márquez’s Books Finally Get U.S. Digital Release
“Vintage Books will release nine of García Márquez’s works as e-books on October 15th, marking the first time his books will be available digitally in the United States.” Not included are One Hundred Years of Solitude and No One Writes to the Colonel, which are published by HarperCollins.
Actress Polly Bergen, 84
“A brunette beauty with a warm, sultry singing voice, Bergen was a household name from her 20s onward. She made albums and played leading roles in films, stage musicals and TV dramas. She also hosted her own variety series, was a popular game show panelist, and founded a thriving beauty products company that bore her name.”
Paul Taylor Reveals First Plans For His Revamped Dance Company
“The choreographer Paul Taylor startled the dance world earlier this year by reinventing his company as Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, which he said would perform his works along with those of other modern dance pioneers and contemporary choreographers. Now the new enterprise is coming into somewhat clearer focus” with the announcement of its first season.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.22.14
How should we subsidize charitable giving to the arts?
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-09-22
Who Broke Hollywood?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-09-22
What’s It All About, Jean Nouvel? A Pace-Setting Museum?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-09-23
Monday Recommendation: Ali Jackson
AJBlog: RiffTides | Published 2014-09-23
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Networks Are Desperate For A Laugh
“Comedies have long been the ratings and profit drivers of the television industry, cheaper to produce than hourlong dramas and lucrative in syndication,” but “only 14 of the 82 prime-time comedies unleashed since 2009 are on the air.”