The favorite musical for many of my friends — including some here at Popejoy Hall — soon comes to the movie screen. Les Misérables makes its motion picture debut…

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     If two performers meet on Christmas Day — or New Year’s Eve or Thanksgiving — one will certainly ask “Where’s your show tonight?” People in show biz work a lot of holidays.…

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     My friend Elizabeth told me she was trying out for Anything Goes. Landmark Musicals holds its auditions…

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    Last week, I had to find a kid’s choir for the upcoming David Benoit show, A Charlie Brown…

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   The final session of the arts marketing conference let out at noon. We were on our own for lunch in Louisville before we scattered back to the many corners of the country from whence we'd come. I could have chosen any one of a…

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A few years ago in Los Angeles, Chevy Chase saw the same production of A Christmas Carol (above) that we had last night in Popejoy Hall. After the show,…

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I recently heard that one orchestra had their tuba player — who had little to play in a particular piece — tweet messages to audience members during the concert. That's one example of the new buzzword for the performing arts: engagement.



With smart phone constantly on, our new arts consumer (we’ll call him/her Chris, for unisex reasons) goes out into the world with at least two guises: Chris the Consumer and Chris the Reporter. Chris the… Continue

The stock character of the Broadway producer probably has a cigar, a large belly and as much appreciation of art as my dog. Yes?



It’s not true, at least not always. Many producers are part of the artistic team and, in a few cases, are part of the artistic impetus.



Scott Sanders, who produced The Color Purple for Broadway fell in love with the book, secured the rights to adapt it to… Continue