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In This Issue · A Great Year for Broadway Theatre · Florida Weirdness Fills Volumes · What New York Means To the Arts · New UK Laws Impose Hardship On Performers ·
France Votes To Legalize
File-Sharing · Why You Should Put Off Till Tomorrow… Upcoming · MaestroTimothy’s Season & Appearances Theatre Job Search Actors
Equity Association - Casting Calls Central Florida
Performing Arts Alliance Music Links Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum MusicalOnline: Classical Musicians Links Art Links Create Change Today! America's
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A Great Year for Broadway Theatre
The League of American Theaters and Producers reports that paid attendance on Broadway this year 'was the highest since 1985 - just shy of 12 million people, an increase of almost 6 percent from last year. And those theatergoers paid an average of $68.86 a ticket, about $2.75 more than last year. Gross sales reached $825 million for Broadway's 39 theaters, a jump of more than 10 percent from 2004. The total number of performances, another indicator of the industry's health, increased by about 4 percent, and attendance per performance was up, too, by about 1.5 percent." The New York Times 12/29/05 READ MORE Joseph
Volpe caps 16 years running the metropolitan Opera. "Through various
crises—a singer dying onstage, a bloated superstar canceling, attendance
figures falling in the wake of September 11th, Cuban billionaire patron
turning out to be neither a billionaire nor Cuban—Volpe kept the great old
house trundling along. Was he visionary? No. Did rival American
companies—particularly the Sa Francisco Opera, with its history-making
productions of Messiaen’s “Saint Francis” and John Adams’s “Doctor
Atomic”—challenge the Met’s preëminence? Yes. But the chaos that has
surrounded many bi houses elsewhere has been absent from the Met, and in this
business the absence of chaos is a considerable achievement."
The New Yorker
12/26/05 READ MORE "There
is more of it here than in any other city in the world. Not only is more going
on here than in London or Berlin, but one of the great attractions of
over-the-top Tokyo is that it makes everything feel different. Tokyo is
chock-full of concert halls and, better yet, concert halls full of listeners.
Where other musical capitals consider themselves lucky to have two or three
important large venues for concerts and opera, Tokyo and its outskirts boast
10, plus many more medium- and smaller-sized halls. The city is also home to
about a dozen symphony orchestras." Los Angeles Times 12/25/05 READ MORE How weird is Florida? So weird that not one, not two, but three different books have been titled "Weird Florida." The first, written by Palm Beach Post reporter Eliot Kleinberg, hit stores in 1998 and detailed ... the best solutions. CNN 12/31/05 READ MORE Over
the past few decades, while museum attendance at big city museums has soared,
the numbers at smaller rural museums have fallen by about half. Why?
"Numerous causes have been cited for this precipitous decline, including
the weather and 9/11. But one factor stands out among the reasons behind this
consistent, decades-long trend: the 1978 deregulation of the airline industry
and a new era of cheap air travel." OpinionJournal.com 12/27/05 READ MORE How
big does New York loom on America's creative landscape? A new report takes
some measures: "No other place in the U.S. even comes close to matching
the city’s creative assets. In fact, 8.3 percent of all creative sector
workers in the U.S. are based in New York. The city is home to over a third
of all the country’s actors and roughly 27 percent of the nation’s fashion
designers,12 percent of film editors,10 percent of set designers, 9 percent
of graphic designers, 8 percent of architects and 7 percent of fine
artists." Center
for an Urban Future 12/05 (pdf) READ MORE New performer licensing laws in the UK have made things difficult for small acts. "When the culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, launched the licensing laws on November 24, the media focused almost exclusively on the new 24-hour opening rules and the fears of a wave of binge drinking. Hardly anyone reported that at the same time the regulations required every small-scale entertainer, from folk musicians to street artists to charity carollers, to obtain a public entertainment licence before putting on a paid-for performance." The Guardian (UK) 12/27/05 READ MORE "A
French government crackdown on digital piracy has backfired because lawmakers
rebelled by endorsing amendments to legalize the online sharing of music and
movies instead of punishing it. The vote last week by members of France's
lower house dealt a setback to Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres,
who introduced the draft legislation... Under the original proposals, those
caught pirating copy-protected material would have faced $360,000 in fines
and up to three years in jail. An 11th-hour government offer to give illegal
downloaders two warnings prior to prosecution was not enough to stem the
rebellion. Instead, the amendments voted would legalize file-sharing by
anyone paying a monthly royalties duty estimated at $8.50."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(AP) 12/27/05
READ MORE "Most
people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this
is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you
could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else.
So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate
well." Paul
Graham 12/05
READ MORE January 9 & 10 "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the
Forum" Jan 9 & 10, 2006 Maestro Timothy's first time
working with The Bay Street Players of Eustis, Florida. Come audition
for one of Broadway's greatest farces! Up to the minute Calendar Detailed information, locations
and printable versions. Touring Thru May 2006 with Public
performances Nov. 12 & 19 at 2:30 PM "The Magical Pinata" Sept 2005
- May 2006 Congratulations
Cast Members! Marsha DiPaolo, Sonya Guyer, J.C. Rede and Ray Wood Touring Thru May 2006 with Public performance March 11, 2006 at 2:30 PM "Edgar Allan Poe" October 2005 - May 2006 Congratulations Cast Members! Andrea Finkle, Kylie Koscoe, J.C. Rede and Ray Wood Opening January
20 "Greetings" Jan 20 - 29, 2006 Congratulations Cast
Members! Walker Fischer, Sandy Zimbler, John C. Lucas and Carol Cole Opening April 7 "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum" April 7 - 23, 2006 Maestro Timothy's first time working with The Bay Street Players of Eustis, Florida. Come audition for one of Broadway's greatest farces on January 9 or 10! Opening May 19 "Sport" May 19 -
29, 2006 Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble's
first production in the Orlando International Fringe Festival! Congratulations
Cast Members! Patrick Braillard, Mike Gill and Brandon Roberts On
Tour - U.S. On Tour - Musician
& Songwriter Joe Jencks A friend of mine from college, Joe, is one of
the most entertaining, inspirational and enlightening performers of our
time. I was on his first album "The Phoenix". Keep
posing the questions, Joe! Catch him on tour! California New Tour
Pending - great people & songwriters Joe
Armstong & Hedy Burress Hedy (Heather) & Joe were friends of
mine in college. Miss the parties Joe! Hedy starred on the
hit TV show Boston Common. She has also starred in movies such as If These Walls
Could Talk, Valentine and Bug. For you gamers, she is the voice of Yuna for the "Final Fantasy" series. THE WICKSBORO
INCIDENT - Feature Film Finalist, Los Angeles A friend of mine from college,
Kyle Nudo, stars and co-produced this 2003 independent release, THE
WICKSBORO INCIDENT - a
feature film finalist in the Hollywood Film Festival, ask for it at a video
store near you. Kyle has even been seen lately in various beer commercials
and on the NBC soap opera PASSIONS! Florida At Universal Studios Orlando - Hours Vary Two friends of mine can be
seen performing: Karla Sue Shultz in the Beetlejuice's Graveyard Review as the Bride of Frankenstein and Patrick Braillard in Fear Factor Live. Out
of the Box Entertainment - booking shows now Three friends of mine, JC Rede, Jenny Fedor and
Mikka Cartright, are performing shows to suit your needs. At Pirates Dinner Adventure
Theater Orlando - Hours Vary A friend of mine, Shane
Wages, can be seen performing in the role of Treasure the Captain's wife, the lead female. Six Degrees Improv - Sundays 10 p.m at
Austin's Coffee & Film in Winter Park, FL
Two friends
of mine, Adam Bellas & Charlie Downs, can be seen performing in
the troupe. Charlie is also in charge of booking them for your special
event! Opening April 14 "You Can't Take It With You" Apr
14 - 30, 2005 Orlando, FL Two friends of mine, Brandon
Robert & Patrick Bralliard, are cast. Production company is The Orlando Repertory
Theatre Company. Illinois Closing Jan 7 "Judy’s Scary Little Christmas” Dec 3,
2005 – Jan 7, 2006 Chicago, IL A friend of mine from college,
Tim Howard, is director. Production company is Hell In A Handbag Productions. New
York On Broadway
- "Chicago The Musical" New York College friend, Gary Kilmer, is a swing in the
New York Broadway cast. Awesome show! Artist Development - "RAD -
Recording Artist Development" New York A good friend, Brad Hardcastle,
is the vice-president of this non-profit organization with the mission
to provide up-and-coming singer-songwriters with high quality, low cost
recordings of their work, along with career development and artistic
support. Check them out! |
