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Sunday, February 14, 2016

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

OK Go zero gravity music video interview

Business Insider: The band OK Go is known for pulling off some impressive feats in their music videos.

Their first big hit came in 2009 with the music video for "Here It Goes Again." In that video, they ran on treadmills while belting out the lyrics. For their song "This Too Shall Pass," they set up an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine.

The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2014-2015

The Producer's Perspective: Broadway Marketing is an open book test. Literally.

Every “this time of year,” The Broadway League sends all of its members a book. That book contains a complete breakdown of who came to Broadway shows in the last calendar year, where they heard about Broadway shows, why they came, how much money they earn, whether they bring their families, and so on, etc. etc.

Carnegie Mellon students of many disciplines invent, build Lunar Gala's fashion creations

TribLIVE: If you can design a building, why not design fashion?

“There are a lot of similarities to designing a garment and architecture, including the structure of the clothing,” says Noopur Suckhlecha, a fourth-year Carnegie Mellon University student.

Immersive Theatre, Defined: Five Elements in Sleep No More, Then She Fell, and More

HowlRound: Immersive theatre has become so popular over the last several years that many theatrical companies claim the title for their shows, making it difficult for some theatregoers to identify what genuinely belongs in the genre. I have no such problem. Immersive theatre is theatre that makes me sneeze. This is not meant as a put-down; I’m simply stating a fact

Take a look inside Broadway's most exciting musical numbers

TribLIVE: Even in a show with plenty of magic, a special sort of it happens right after intermission at “Aladdin” on Broadway.

No sooner have you settled back into your seat than a revolving door of what seems like hundreds of dancers performs the song “Prince Ali” at a hyper-caffeinated pace. They. Never. Stop. Coming.

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