NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

10 Top Tips to Combat Procrastination

FreelanceFolder: "Procrastination can be dangerous for a freelancing business.
If you put critical tasks off for too long you may find yourself without enough time to get them done properly. This is important because rushed work tends to be sloppy and less desirable for clients.
Procrastinating may even cause you to lose a client, or worse, your business. Yet, many of us put off necessary tasks every day without even realizing it.

Posted by David at 3/19/2011 07:13:00 PM <--Comments Here

Charlie Sheen adds 12 more tour dates

Chicago Sun-Times: "Sheen is adding a dozen more dates to his live show, which is now set to stretch into Canada and continue through May 3.

Posted by Dale at 3/20/2011 11:18:00 PM <--Comments Here

‘Spider-Man’ Bloodbath Continues as Taymor’s Flying Meister Gets Booted

Bloomberg: "Producers of Broadway’s much- delayed $70 million “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” are in talks to replace its high-profile choreographer, Daniel Ezralow, two people familiar with the situation said.
Ezralow is likely to be replaced by Chase Brock, a Brooklyn dance maker in his late twenties, said the two people, who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized by the producers to discuss changes in the show.

Posted by David at 3/21/2011 02:39:00 PM <--Comments Here

Without new voices, stages will just echo the familiar

The Washington Post: "When the Kennedy Center puts its estimable weight behind a big theater project, the results can have inordinate impact. Consider the importance to culture in this country of staging the late August Wilson’s complete 10-play chronicle of black life in 20th-century America, as the institution did in 2008. Or the value in rolling six of composer Stephen Sondheim’s musicals into a summer repertory, the impressive offering back in 2002, near the start of Michael M. Kaiser’s term as center president.

Posted by Dale at 3/20/2011 11:21:00 PM <--Comments Here

Is It Time to Re-Think the Way We Discount?

Arts Marketing: "It seems to me that there are two reasons to provide discounts:
1. To encourage and reward particular behaviors
2. To provide access to targeted demographics
Too many times arts organizations provide discounts that don’t encourage desired behavior, or that benefit patrons outside of targeted demographics. While exercised with good intentions, a quick examination of some common practices reveals that there can be some detrimental unintended consequences

Posted by David at 3/20/2011 03:46:00 PM <--Comments Here

USITT, J.R. Clancy Launch Rigging Safety Initiative

Stage Directions: "At last week’s USITT keynote session, USITT President Joe Aldridge announced the start of the Rigging Safety Initiative. Kickstarted by a $25,000 grant from J.R. Clancy, matched by the board of USITT, the Rigging Safety Initiative will provide free or low-cost inspections of rigging systems in private and public secondary schools across the U.S. in order to ensure a safe working environment for students. More details about how the program came about, and how to apply to have a rigging system inspected after the jump.

Posted by David at 3/16/2011 05:14:00 PM <--Comments Here