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Monday, May 21, 2012
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BROADWAY BARES: Beach Burlesque Benefitting @BCEFA Announced for 6/2 on Fire Island • • • JERSEY BOYS speaks a universal language | accessAtlanta @JerseyBoysInfo via @sharethis • • • Mike Bartlett’s Olivier Award-winning play, COCK, receives more rave reviews @cockfightplay via @sharethis • • • ANNIE plays the Palace! Opening November 8 • • • Our Photo of the Week is @PRISCILLAUS star @thenickadams showing the twitterverse & @broadwayworld his “snake” • • • @john_lithgow, currently in THE COLUMNIST @mtc_nyc, will be on @latenightjimmy tonight • • • [RT: MJMcKean] Great cast, great play: COCK, at the Duke, beautifully directed by James McDonald; awesome actors Harner, Quaid, Smith & Smith • • • Jenkins Named Head of Illinois Theatre Program via @sharethis • • •
Magazines Catching Eyes, and Clicks
New york Times/Business – by CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
The recent Time magazine cover featuring an attractive 26-year-old mother suckled by her 3-year-old son — with the headline “Are You Mom Enough?” — proved that an appropriately shocking magazine image can still provoke conversation.
The article prompted a segment on “Saturday Night Live.” The actor Jason Biggs made his own version of the cover and posted it on Twitter. The Huffington Post published nearly two dozen pieces, including a slide show of images of breast-feeding in art history. Even Benjamin Netanyahu, the cover subject this week, jokingly asked Time editors if he would be photographed with his shirt off.
“We had a cover that captured lightning in a bottle,” said Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time. “It’s obviously a story that hit a nerve.”
A Time spokeswoman said the breast-feeding cover was its best-selling issue this year, and Time doubled the number of subscriptions typically ordered in a week.
Taking their cues from digital counterparts, magazines are as interested in hitting nerves on social media as on the newsstand. The Time cover left an even more impressive mark online. On the day after the cover appeared, terms related to the cover were four out of the top five searches on Google. In the eight days after its publication, the cover was mentioned over 50,000 times on Twitter, and the magazine’s Twitter followers spiked. Time also received 43,000 likes on Facebook.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/business/media/time-and-newsweek-magazine-covers-catch-eyes-and-clicks.html
Link to Broadway Grosses for the week ending May 20, 2012:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/166197-Broadway-Grosses-May-14-20
http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm
Current week:
1. The Lion King – $1,843,265
2. Wicked
3. Evita
4. The Book of Mormon
5. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
Last week:
1. The Lion King – $1,717,281
2. The Book of Mormon
3. Wicked
4. Evita
5. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
5 Years Ago:
1. Wicked - $1,389,293
2. Jersey Boys
3. The Lion King
4. Mary Poppins
5. The Color Purple
10 Years Ago:
1. The Producers - $1,145,247
2. The Lion King
3. Mamma Mia!
4. Oklahoma!
5. 42nd Street
Opening this week:
Off Broadway
February House – The Public Theater – Tuesday, May 22
Here I Go – 59E59 Theaters – Tuesday, May 22
Chimichangas and Zoloft – Atlantic Theater Company – Wednesday, May 23
The Common Pursuit – Laura Pels Theatre – Thursday, May 24
Murder In The First – 59E59 Theaters – Friday, May 25