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Sunday, September 24, 2023

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Broadway's Sweeney Todd Stages Impromptu Concert Reading Due to Set Malfunction

Playbill: Audiences at the September 15 performance of Sweeney Todd attended a different kind of tale. Last night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, technical difficulties threatened to cancel the evening's performance of Sweeney Todd. According to social media posts, the company quickly adjusted to present a 40-minute concert version of the show.

Lyric Opera’s SoundShirt offers new technology for deaf, hearing-impaired patrons

Chicago Sun-Times: The conductor steps to the podium and raises his baton in the darkened theater. The flutter of flutes. The quiver of strings. And then you feel something tingling, vibrating about your shoulders — almost as though a pair of bees have somehow found their way into the theater and under your clothing. It’s not an unpleasant sensation — just odd, very odd.

'The Little Mermaid' Costume Designer Was Inspired by the Seven Seas

collider.com: The Little Mermaid costume designer Colleen Atwood and filmmaker Rob Marshall have a working relationship that has already spanned more than 20 years, after first joining forces on Chicago (which won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Costume Design, among others). Immersing herself in nautical and marine research and taking inspiration from the life within the Seven Season and the colors of the ocean, Atwood created stand-out looks for all the inhabitants of this much beloved world, from the humans to the merfolk to the story’s tentacled villain.

Boebert Apologizes For Vaping At Beetlejuice’ Musical After Video Surfaces

Deadline: After being kicked out of a performance of a Beetlejuice musical in Downtown Denver last weekend for vaping, being on her phone and making a racket, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) made light of the incident, saying she was guilty only of “laughing and singing out loud” and, according to her campaign, any vapor present was due to what a representative told the Washington Post were “heavy fog machines and electronic cigarettes used during the show.” The rep explained that there might have been “a misunderstanding from someone sitting near her.”

'Digital necromancy': why bringing people back from the dead with AI is just an extension of our grieving practices

theconversation.com: Generative AI – which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2 – supercharges what has come to be known as “digital necromancy”, the conjuring of the dead from the digital traces they leave behind.

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