“Getting literature onstage is a great way to get new conversations started. The idea of sparking interest in a theatrical event in people who are familiar with a book is exciting.”
Tag: 11.30.07
Some Broadway Shows Slash Ticket Prices After Strike
Many shows are toying with new pricing schemes to encourage a rapid rebound for Broadway biz. “Chicago,” for instance, sold all seats to the Nov. 29 perf for $26.50, and ticketholders turned away because of the strike are being encouraged to rebook by March 28 with the offer of a $40 gasoline gift card.
Broadways Tries To Rebound With Five Openings
Four of the five, however, are that riskiest of theatrical ventures: new plays rather than musicals.
Merce Cunningham’s Long Road
“Although today the work of Cunningham and Cage is revered, for the most part their native country was the last to acknowledge their value as artists. For nearly three decades of Cunningham’s career, professional presenters for his work in America were rare indeed.”
Bomb Scare At ROM Turns Out To Be Art Project
“A student at the Ontario College of Art and Design turned himself into police with his lawyer Thursday night after a multimedia bomb hoax at the Royal Ontario Museum on Wednesday night… He has been suspended from OCAD for non-academic mischief. Two faculty members have also been suspended with pay.”
More Back & Forth In Writers’ Strike
“Hollywood studios presented a new contract offer to striking film and TV writers Thursday that the studios said would pay writers millions of dollars extra for shows created for the Internet. But writers said some of the proposals amounted to rollbacks and said studios should adopt their counteroffer.”
Strike Was Short, But Brutal
“While Broadway was thrilled to be back in business yesterday – curtain up, light the lights! – you didn’t see any stagehands or producers doing victory laps around Times Square. Bloodied and exhausted, both sides gave up a lot to get a deal.”
Wait – Carson Daly Has Writers?
Late-night talk show host Carson Daly has taken his show back into production despite the ongoing writers’ strike, the first such host to do so. “If NBC hoped Daly’s return would demonstrate the air was safe on the other side of the picket line, it does not seem to have achieved that result.”
Getting Back On Track
In the wake of the now-settled stagehands’ strike, everyone from producers to ticket brokers to tourists seems to be scrambling to be sure that everyone who wants a ticket to a Broadway show can get one. So far, demand is high.
Miami Art Museum Unveils Evolving Design
“In unveiling a design today by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the museum plans to portray [the plans for a new museum building] as an interim stage in the development of its $220 million project overlooking Biscayne Bay.”