Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:
The theatrical curtain call is more than just bows
NPR: You're at the theater, the last scene ends, and the cast comes out for applause. It's pretty standard today. But curtain calls once were eccentric, revealing, funny and just plain effective.Congratulations On Your Failure! (Make Sure To Show Your Work)
Butts In the Seats: This Facebook post about the Failure Award Scholarship immediately caught my eye this morning. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is looking for creative Colorado seniors to apply to their Failure Award Scholarship program. Winners will join past failures awarded the $20,000 scholarship.Is Beyonce's Tour Another Dynamic Ticket Price Mess?
www.ticketnews.com: Following the messy presale for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour dates last year, Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster have been specifically warned about their next high-profile tour sale – but it looks like things are going poorly once again. Rather than a scene of melting down servers due to peak demand as consumers saw during the November Taylor Swift debacle, it looks like aggressive ticket surge pricing tactics are causing cratering demand for Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour dates, and fans aren’t happy.Everything Old is New Again: How Big Orchestras Are Making a Broadway Comeback
Playbill: It’s no secret that Broadway orchestras have been shrinking. Since the mid-20th century, pressures on pit size have sliced away at the sonic landscape, with technologic innovations such as synthesizers and audio preprogramming swooping in to seemingly replace acoustic instruments. When Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943, it had a 28-person orchestra, which was already seen as a significant compromise from the standard chamber orchestra size of 50 musicians that composers were trained to write for.After Winnie the Pooh, these other characters will soon enter the public domain
www.fastcompany.com: Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, the low-budget horror film that opened in America on Friday, has grossed more than $2.5 million globally, according to Box Office Mojo. Admittedly, $2.5 million would be a disastrous figure for most films, but the haul makes Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey a financial hit. This is because the movie reportedly cost less than $100,000 to make, which means it’s already grossed 25 times its production budget
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