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Online Video So Mainstream, Even Mickey Mouse Likes It!

Well, to be perfectly honest, I’m not sure how Mickey feels about online videos, but the guy who runs the biz side of Disney World is giving them a whirl …
NPR did a great piece on Michael Eisner (CEO of Disney)’s year-old broadband production company, Vuguru. Vuguru produces “low-budget, quick-and-dirty Web series” using online video.
The company is producing Foreign …

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Where the WWWomen Are

A few weeks ago, my friend Yvonne, who is in her early 30’s, invited both friends and family to a party. Her mother-in-law was particularly excited to attend because Yvonne’s college friend, Dave Gilbert, was a fellow party-er.  Gilbert, Yvonne’s mother-in-law had recently discovered, had designed her favorite computer game.  (Gilbert is owner of Wadget Eye Games .)
This cute …

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How to Make Your Sister Love New York

My sister and her husband made their first visit to New York last week. (They live in Los Angeles, where I’m from.) Naturally, we wanted to show them a kling-klang-king of a good time. We also had theatre-type commitments almost every night of her visit. (Yeah, I know, sucks to be us.)
Luckily they love …

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Tonys boost Broadway Sales

It doesn’t take a Rocket-Science Marketer to know that a Tony nom helps with ticket sales. Read this article from Gordon Cox at Variety:

The beneficiary of 13 nods, “In the Heights” ($650,504) was one of the production that saw sales climb by six figures. Fellow tuner nominees “Cry-Baby” ($347,297) and “Passing Strange” …

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Time Out Magazine: The Joke’s on Us

A friend of mine really, really likes Sex and the City and is devouring all reading material about the upcoming movie. She was uber-excited to see those fabulous 4 on the cover of this week’s Time Out …
Even though there was duct tape over the actresses’ mouths, and a pink banner draped across the …

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Avenue Q Four Years Later

I saw Avenue Q back in 2004 for the first time with the original cast and then again in 2005 with all original members with the exception of Barrett Foa as Princeton. Both times I saw it I was amazed. I really love this show. What I feel Avenue Q has that other shows do …

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THE PROGRAM: A Flashlight on Avant-Garde Darkness

As much as I love theater of all types, plenty of times I leave the show wondering what it all meant, if I got all I could out of it.  The more experimental the show, the more I am left wondering what, exactly, I was supposed to understand.  I often read the reviews after I …

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