The Afternoon Report, Tuesday, June 18, 2013

June 18, 2013


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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Today’s Tweets from BBB
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Happy opening to @PublicTheaterNY/#ShakespeareinthePark’s COMEDY OF ERRORS starring @jessetyler and Hamish Linklater! #breakaleg • • • @MTC_NYC’s CHOIR BOY begins performances tonight • • • Tickets for Broadway’s NO MAN’S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT available July 15 • • •

How To Create Perfect Posts on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest And Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC]
MediaBistro.com/AllTwitter – by SHEA BENNETT

Is there such a thing as a perfect tweet?

Sure there is. While the content that you post on Twitter will vary depending on your business, paying close attention to how you tweet can dramatically improve your engagement rates. Having a clear call to action, being mindful to use proper punctuation and shortening URLs (with Bitly) are simple steps everyone can take to optimise the quality of their Twitter output, maximising reader interest and significantly improving ROI.

Other social networks will also benefit from a little TLC. For example, on Facebook, a “less is more” approach to status updates on your brand page, teasing the audience so they can’t resist clicking on your link, can pay dividends. On Pinterest, images without faces get repinned more regularly, while tagging relevant users across all social networks is an easy but effective way to get their attention and help spread the word.

This infographic from mycleveragency takes a closer look at how everyone can create perfect posts on social platforms.

To check out this infographic, click the link below
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/perfect-social-media-posts_b45033


Facebook’s Carolyn Everson Talks Mobile, Hashtags and the Ad Cull
AdAge.com/Digital – by COTTON DELO

Facebook’s VP-global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson is headed back stateside after spending the last half year in London, but first, unsurprisingly, she’ll spend the week in Cannes. It’s a week filled with meetings for Facebook’s sales chief, and she’ll also convene the company’s “client council” of 18 top brand and agency executives on Wednesday morning to give them an inside look at what Facebook has planned and solicit their feedback.

Before leaving for France, she chatted with Ad Age about the growth of Facebook’s mobile ad business, the potential of Instagram, the drift away from social ads as Facebook’s unique value proposition, and the recently announced cull of over half of the social network’s existing ad units.

To read this interview, click the link below
http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-s-carolyn-everson-mobile-hashtags-instagram/242172/

Broadway Ad Breakdowns: Continue reading →

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MTC’s CHOIR BOY begins performances tonight

June 18, 2013

Manhattan Theatre Club’s American premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s CHOIR BOY, the new play featuring gospel music directed by Trip Cullman begins previews tonight at 7:30 PM in preparation for a Tuesday, July 2 opening at MTC’s The Studio at Stage II – Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center – Stage II (131 West 55th Street).

The limited engagement of CHOIR BOY features Nicholas L. Ashe (The Lion King), Kyle Beltran (In The Heights), Grantham Coleman (As You Like It), Tony Award winner Chuck Cooper (The Piano Lesson), Drama Desk Award winner Austin Pendleton (Ivanov), Jeremy Pope (Little Shop of Horrors), and Wallace Smith (American Idiot).

In order to ensure that tickets to CHOIR BOY are affordable to the widest possible, most diverse audiences, MTC is pricing all tickets at $30. Tickets are on sale via CityTix® (212-581-1212), www.nycitycenter.org and at the New York City Center Box Office.

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Tickets for Broadway’s NO MAN’S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT available July 15

June 18, 2013

Tickets to the limited season repertoire of Harold Pinter’s NO MAN’S LAND and Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT, starring Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley directed by Sean Mathias go on sale beginning Monday, July 15 through Sunday, July 21 through Audience Rewards.  Tickets will go on sale to the general public starting Monday, July 22 through Telecharge at www.telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.

This limited season repertoire of two of the most iconic plays of the 20th Century, Harold Pinter’s NO MAN’S LAND and Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT will open on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Street, this fall.  Performances will begin Saturday, October 26 at 8pm. The official opening is Sunday, November 24, 2013.  This limited season will run for 14 weeks only.

For ticket information through Audience Rewards or to create your free membership, go to:  www.audiencerewards.com.

Information on Group Sales will be announced in the coming weeks.

Prior to Broadway, NO MAN’S LAND will play a brief engagement at Berkeley Rep August 3 through 31, 2013 with McKellen, Stewart, Crudup and Hensley directed by Mathias.

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The Afternoon Report, Monday, June 17, 2013

June 17, 2013


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Monday, June 17, 2013

Today’s Tweets from BBB
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Happy birthday to @ONCEMusical star @RattyBurvil! #broadwaybirthdays • • • 6″ Forward, 5″ back: @ActuallyNPH returns to #Broadway in HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH spring 2014 • • • @ntlive announces record-breaking numbers for THE AUDIENCE and a new lineup of titles for the series’ fifth season. • • • Congratulations to @MATILDABroadway on breaking the Shubert house record for an eight-performance week! • • • Happy birthday to Tony Winner @JohnGallagherJr! #broadwaybirthdays • • • @MTC_NYC #THEEXPLORERSCLUB Nell Benjamin & Jennifer Westfeldt in the New York Times • • • B’way’s biggest box office hit of the year @MOTOWNMusical toasts best week ever, breaks Lunt-Fontanne house record • • • BBB clients win 65 awards for the 2012-2013 season! • • • Tony Winning @PIPPINMusical Joins the Million Dollar Club & Breaks Box Office Record AGAIN! • • • Happy opening to LCT3′s #AKIDLIKEJAKE @LCTheater! #breakaleg • • •


Facebook Revamps Page Post Ad Links
MediaBistro.com/AllFacebook – by DAVID COHEN

Facebook Monday announced several updates to its page post link ads, including the ability for brands to customize images, the ability to create these units directly via the social network’s self-serve ad-creation tool, and the ability to choose between right-hand-side domain ads and unpublished page post link ads (dark posts) in the News Feed.

The social network said it introduced the changes to page post link ads as part of its overall effort to simplify its ad offerings, and it cited a study released Monday by Nanigans in which Facebook page post link ads performed quite favorably.

The changes to page post link ads were described in more detail in a post on the Facebook Studio blog.

To read this article – click the link below
http://allfacebook.com/revamped-page-post-ad-links_b120094

Link to Broadway Grosses for the week ending June 16, 2013: Continue reading →

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Neil Patrick Harris To Return to Broadway in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

June 17, 2013

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Producer David Binder is thrilled to announce that Neil Patrick Harris will star in the Broadway premiere of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s musical HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH in the Spring of 2014. The remaining creative team members, additional casting, and the theatre will be confirmed at a later date.

The announcement that Neil Patrick Harris will play ‘Hedwig,’ follows his recent triumphant engagement as the host of the 67th Annual Tony Awards® (the highest rated Tonys® broadcast in more than a decade).

Harris said, “I am simultaneously ecstatic and terrified to be stepping into Hedwig’s heels. It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime role and I can’t wait to begin the journey.”

John Cameron Mitchell who wrote the book and starred in the original stage and film productions of HEDWIG said, “Who better to pass the wig to but the finest entertainer of his generation?” and composer Stephen Trask said, “It’s like you’re putting together a fantasy rock band and Paul McCartney agrees to play bass.”

David Binder, who first produced HEDWIG in 1997 and is now producing the musical on Broadway, said, “I’m so excited that everything has come into place to bring HEDWIG to Broadway. I have always felt that John and Stephen’s musical is a masterpiece and deserved to be seen by wider audiences. Neil Patrick Harris is a consummate stage performer who knows how to rock — there is no one better to play the role of Hedwig on Broadway.”

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National Theatre Live announces record-breaking numbers for THE AUDIENCE and new titles for Season 5, including first-ever broadcast of WAR HORSE

June 17, 2013

National Theatre Live is pleased to announce that the June 13 live broadcast of Peter Morgan’s Olivier Award-winning new play The Audience was seen by nearly 30,000 people in North America and nearly 80,000 people in the UK – the largest audience ever for a live broadcast from National Theatre Live. Due to the record-breaking response to the National Theatre Live broadcast of The Audience, many encore screenings have already been added, and more encores will be added throughout the summer internationally. In North America, there are currently 700 screenings scheduled throughout the summer, with additional encores to be added still; in the UK, nearly 800 screenings will take place – the largest number of screenings for a National Theatre Live broadcast in both North America and the UK ever. The Audience played its final performance at London’s Gielgud Theatre on June 15, starring internationally acclaimed actress Helen Mirren as The Queen, directed by Stephen Daldry, and won two 2013 Olivier Awards for Best Actress (Helen Mirren) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Richard McCabe).

In 2013-2014, the fifth season of the National Theatre Live series, audiences can look forward to a wider variety than ever of productions and special events from the National’s stages and beyond. The National’s critically-acclaimed new production of Shakespeare’s Othello, directed by Nicholas Hytner, will be broadcast live September 26, 2013; the Manchester International Festival’s production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh in the title role, directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, will be broadcast live in the UK on July 20, 2013, and broadcast internationally on October 17, 2013; a star-studded 50th Anniversary celebration of the National Theatre will be broadcast live from the National on November 2, 2013; the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, directed by Josie Rourke, will be broadcast live on January 30, 2014; and the National’s internationally acclaimed production of War Horse, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford, and directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris in association with Handspring Puppet Company, will be broadcast live from the West End for the first time ever in 2014, with specific dates to be announced at a later time. All broadcasts will have multiple encore screenings following the live dates. Continue reading →

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MATILDA THE MUSICAL Breaks Shubert House Record | Grosses $1,184,104.46 Over Eight Performances for the Week Ending June 16, 2013

June 17, 2013

Photo by Joan Marcus

The Tony Award-winning Broadway hit MATILDA THE MUSICAL has broken the house record at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street), grossing $1,184,104.46 over eight performances for the week ending June 16, 2013.

MATILDA THE MUSICAL, produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Dodgers, opened April 11, 2013 at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre to rapturous reviews. The production has received four Tony Awards and a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theater for each of the four girls sharing the title role, as well as two Outer Critics Circle Awards, five Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.

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MOTOWN THE MUSICAL Toasts Best Ever Week On Broadway

June 17, 2013

Broadway’s smash hit MOTOWN THE MUSICAL retains its title as the biggest box office hit of the year, remaining atop the Millionaire’s Club, and celebrating its best week ever with a platinum gross of  $1,441,448. (week ending June 16) while setting a new box office record at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL has celebrated weekly grosses over 1 Million dollars every single week since previews began March 11, while selling every ticket available for every performance. No other untried Broadway show (out of town try-out, off-Broadway transfer, West End production) has ever achieved this while opening cold in New York.

MOTOWN THE MUSICAL, featuring music and lyrics from the legendary Motown catalogue and a book by Berry Gordy began performances on March 11 at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street), and officially opened on April 14.

Directed by Charles Randolph-Wright, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is the real story of the one-of-a-kind sound that hit the airwaves in 1959 and changed our culture forever. This exhilarating show charts Motown Founder Berry Gordy’s incredible journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and many more.

Featuring all the classics you love, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL tells the story behind the hits as Diana, Smokey, Berry and the whole Motown family fight against the odds to create the soundtrack of change in America. The music that shattered barriers, shaped our lives and made us all move to the same beat finally comes to Broadway in the season’s most anticipated world-premiere event.

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BBB Clients Win 65 Awards for the 2012-13 Season

June 17, 2013

Congratulations to our clients who were honored with 65 theatre awards this Spring!

Thank you to the Astaire, Broadway.com Audience Choice, BroadwayWorld, Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World and Tony Awards for supporting live theatre in New York City and across the country.

Thank you and congratulations to the winning shows: ANNIE, THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES, CHAPLIN, COCK, I’LL EAT YOU LAST, LUCKY GUY, MATILDA, MOTOWN, OLD HATS, ORPHANS, THE PIANO LESSON, and PIPPIN.

And a really big thanks to everyone on the Boneau/Bryan-Brown team!

Looking forward to working with you in the 2013-2014 Season.

Chris & Adrian
www.boneaubryanbrown.com

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PIPPIN Enters Million Dollar Club & Breaks Box Office Record, Again!

June 17, 2013

The Tony Award winning new Broadway production of PIPPIN has broken the house record for the 4th time at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street), grossing $1,009,392.14 over eight performances for the week ending June 16, 2013. In the 92 year history of the Music Box Theatre, PIPPIN is the first show ever to enter the “Million Dollar Club.”

PIPPIN is the recipient of the 2013 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Patina Miller), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Andrea Martin) and Best Direction of a Musical (Diane Paulus). The production also led the winners of the Outer Critics Circle Awards with 7 wins including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Director of a Musical (Diane Paulus), Outstanding Choreographer (Chet Walker), Outstanding Lighting Design (Kenneth Posner), Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Patina Miller), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Terrence Mann), Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Andrea Martin). PIPPIN received the Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical and two Fred and Adele Astaire Awards including Outstanding Choreographer of a Broadway Show (Chet Walker) and Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show (Charlotte d’Amboise).

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