Billboard.biz:
"Rumble, young musicians, rumble," Springsteen told the crowd. "Open
your ears and open your hearts. Don't take yourself too seriously, and
take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don't worry. Worry your ass
off. Have unclad confidence, but doubt. It keeps you awake and alert.
Believe you are the baddest ass in town-and you suck! It keeps you
honest. Be able to keep two completely contradictory ideals alive and
well inside of your heart and head at all times. If it doesn't drive you
crazy, it will make you strong.
Backstage:
Online companies such as Netflix, Google, and Amazon have made clear
they are interested in developing more original programming, but another
trend we may see is one of canceled network shows finding homes online.
Both kinds of programming would challenge the Screen Actors Guild and
the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists because new
media provisions in the collective bargaining agreements weren’t
established to support that type of work. Last week’s buzz about Netflix
picking up the canceled Fox show “Terra Nova” is the most recent
possibility of seeing a network production shift to online.
Stage Directions:
Theatre Bay Area and arts research firm WolfBrown have released the
results of their two-year nationwide study on the intrinsic impact of
the value of theatre. The study is published in the book Counting New
Beans: Intrinsic Impact And The Value Of Art, and it contains the
findings of their study as well as interviews with 20 artistic directors
and a selection of essays.
WSJ.com: Creativity can seem like magic. We look at people like Steve Jobs and Bob Dylan, and we conclude that they must possess supernatural powers denied to mere mortals like us, gifts that allow them to imagine what has never existed before. They're "creative types." We're not.
HowlRound: It is no secret that Broadway is the driving engine behind the development of new musical theater, largely because it’s one of the only ways a musical can be profitable. When musicals succeed on Broadway, an entire channel of distribution opportunities open up, from tours to licensed productions at regional theaters that have trained their audiences to expect a Broadway brand.
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