Posts Tagged ‘Tonys’
 

 

AUDIENCE MAP: Awards Shows

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at the detailed demographics for major televised awards shows over the past year.  As a reminder, the audience shares for 30 distinct gender-age groups are displayed for each progr...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED REVIEW: THE TONY AWARDS

Even the acceptance speeches are classier on THE TONY AWARDS.  Tonight’s telecast featured a eloquent salute to “All those who say ‘Yes'” in the name of theatre from the lead producer of Best Play winne...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY REVIEW: “Nice Work If You Can Get It”

> The Producers may have been both the best and worst thing ever to happen to Matthew Broderick.  He started his career in the mid-1980s as a fairly smooth, smart-aleck teen mouthpiece for Neil Simon in Brighton Beach Memo...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SHOWBUZZDAILY NY THEATRE JOURNAL: ‘Death of A Salesman”

> Although a great work of art is great forever, the relevance of a given piece to a current moment in time does tend to fluctuate.  It turns out that Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN, written 63 years ago, is so ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY NY THEATRE JOURNAL: “Venus In Fur”

> VENUS IN FUR exists, at this point in its Broadway life, as two overlapping but not identical entities:  it’s a deft new play by David Ives, but also, and more prominently, it’s become the Star-Is-Born vehicl...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

COUNTING TO 10: The Tonys

> The Tony Awards aren’t quite like any other televised awards show.  They’re happily, unapologetically insular (and so are the ratings–thank god for CBS, where “young” audience is a relative ...
by Mitch Salem