Cellphone use during a movie. Clanking ice at a show. What should we do about annoying audience behavior?
The Seattle Times: On a recent night at the ballet, I was distracted from the ethereal beauty on stage by a decidedly nonethereal clanking. A woman in my row was holding a wineglass filled with ice and repeatedly reaching inside of it, maybe to extract a specific, special cube. Or maybe she was panning for gold in there, I don’t know. Regardless, the music was quiet and the constant clankety-clank of the ice against glass was a weirdly discordant note. I wish I hadn’t noticed it, but I did. And I wished, later, that I’d said something, but I didn’t.
How Can Blind Audiences Get a Complete Dance Experience?
Dance Magazine: While you might think of dance as a primarily visual art form, performances engage us on multiple levels. Our ears take in the score, the artists' breathing patterns, fellow audience members' reactions, and the physical percussion made by the dancers' footfalls and partnering. All of this information is available to audience members with limited to no vision, and when it comes to providing them with the rest, there are multiple approaches being refined by experts in the field generally referred to as "audience accessibility."
Production & Lighting Design for Lady Gaga Las Vegas Residency
www.livedesignonline.com: “When you leave this show, I don't want you to leave loving the show and me,” says singer-songwriter Lady Gaga during her Enigma + Jazz & Piano Las Vegas Residency in the Park Theatre at MGM Resorts where she promotes a message of finding yourself through healing. “I want you to leave loving yourself.” The nine-time Grammy Award-winner snagged her first Academy Award and second Golden Globe with Best Original Song for “Shallow” in the film A Star Is Born, which was released around the same time that the superstar was collaborating with production and lighting designer LeRoy Bennett on the show design for the residency.
Why go to the theater? It’s inconvenient. It can be uncomfortable. And here’s why I love it.
The Seattle Times: Theater is inconvenient (you must move your buns); it’s uncomfortable (at least airplanes have flight attendants you can flag down for pretzels); it’s puny for cultural capital (not the street cred of graffiti, nor the sophistication of symphonies); it’s economically silly (there are better ways to make money); it can be intensely claustrophobic and boring (can’t get up, can’t change the channel); and so on.
Broadway secret: A frequent flyer program for theater fans
www.apnews.com: This past spring, dance teacher Donna Cory and one of her students took in the new “Oklahoma!” revival on Broadway.
They thought the musical was bold and historic and urgently current. But perhaps one of the coolest things about the experience was the cost — $0.
Cory is one of millions taking advantage of a somewhat uncelebrated loyalty plan called Audience Rewards, a sort of frequent flyer program for theater fans.
Monday, September 23, 2019
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