Entertainment doesn’t exist in a bubble.
An audience’s enjoyment (or lack thereof), or their artistic takeaways are affected by so many other factors . . . including their mood, the weather, the shows they’ve just seen . . . and, of course, what’s happening in the world.
This can play in a show’s favor [...]
Miss this year’s TEDxBroadway?
Curious as to where I got my “takeaways?”
Or were you there and do you just miss TEDxBroadway?
And now you’re jonesin’ to re-see speakers like Daryl Roth, Susan Salgado and George Takei offer up a few nuggets of their “Broadway Perspective?”
Well, the wait is over. The vids [...]
It’s been over a week since Seth MacFarlane offended a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) and Anne Hathaway pi$$ed off a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) at this year’s Academy Awards. For the first time in years, I watched the show from beginning to end (admittedly [...]
The Planning Committee of this year’s conference made a fantastic choice of starting off the week with speakers from outside our industry in order to inspire us with cutting-edge-commerce thoughts, that we could then try to find ways to work into what we do (not always easy, but a fun challenge for [...]
I’m at the Broadway League conference for the first half of this week (watch the next couple day’s blogs for some takeaways from this year’s speakers and panelists). In addition to lots of learning and networking, there’s always room for a ribbing of our [...]
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