“It looks like Breakfast At Tiffany’s will finally reach Broadway, some 46 years after a musical adaptation became one of the most legendary flops in theater history. ‘Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s,’ a new play version by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out), will begin performances on Broadway in February 2013.”
Tag: 10.10.12
Rome’s Carracci Gallery To Undergo Restoration
“Officials on Wednesday announced plans for the long overdue restoration of the Carracci Gallery in the Palazzo Farnese. With the bidding process for restorers now open, work on the Baroque masterpiece, which dates to the beginning of the 17th century, is scheduled to start in January and take a year to complete.”
Why Hofesh Schechter Is A Choreographer (And Not A Pianist Or Drummer)
“A life of creation is the one that I want. Choreography is a way and it works. … But I think in the end you don’t choose anything in your life, it’s just how it is going to happen. I don’t mean that in a spiritual way, it’s chemical; just how I am set up.”
How Yekaterina Samutsevich Got Her Pussy Riot Conviction Overturned
“The original trial of the punk band, who were sentenced to two years in a penal colony for performing a ‘punk prayer’ against Vladimir Putin in Russia’s main cathedral, was heavily politicised on both sides of the pro-Kremlin and anti-Kremlin divide. … It was a circus of grandiose proportions and with sinister overtones for the defendants and their families. When the appeal hearing came round, Samutsevich probably reasoned that it was time to switch tactics.”
Film Festival In BC Evicted From Venue Over Documentary
“Controversy over a documentary about bestiality has forced a Kelowna film festival” – the Okanagan Film Festival International – “to try and secure a new home on the eve of its scheduled opening.”
Jonathan Nott Named Tokyo Symphony Music Director
“The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra has chosen English conductor Jonathan Nott to be its next music director, beginning in the 2014-15 season. Nott has been chief conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and works as a guest conductor with American and European orchestras.”
How Your Brain Spins Your Life Story
“Our autobiography is pieced together from the many events in our lives – but we pick and choose which ones to include.”
Cartoonists Pay Tribute To Life In Hell
Alison Bechdel, Tom Tomorrow, Jen Sorensen and others salute Matt Groening’s great print comic, recently discontinued after 35 years.
Who Stole Victor Herbert’s Baton?
A display box containing the operetta composer’s conducting baton and other items, valued together at $80,000, was stolen in late August from a home in a Philadelphia suburb. Taken at the same time was a $3 million bust of Benjamin Franklin, which was recovered in late September.
Carolyn Cassady Would Not Read On The Road, She’ll Have You Know
Says Jack Kerouac’s sometime lover and Neal Cassady’s erstwhile wife, now living in an English trailer park (“there is nothing I like about America”), “I didn’t want to read On the Road when it came out in 1957 because I didn’t want to know what Neal was doing with Jack when he left me. And, anyway, it was not my type of literature. I prefer Dickens, Shakespeare and the classics.”