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Monday, August 13, 2012
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Broadway’s ONCE is an official hit. Recoups in just 6 months. via @sharethis • • • BWW TV: Chatting with the Cast & Creative Team of CHAPLIN – Plus A Performance Preview! via @sharethis @ChaplinBway • • • MAMMA MIA! star Zak Resnick in Wall Street Journal. From singing waiter to Broadway star • • • Get a glimpse of the Broadway musical CHAPLIN. via @sharethis @ChaplinBway • • •
Google to Acquire Frommer’s Travel Assets From John Wiley
Bloomberg – by BRIAN WOMACK
Google Inc. agreed to acquire all of John Wiley & Sons Inc. (JW/A)’s travel assets, including the Frommer’s brand, as the owner of the world’s largest Internet search engine expands local services.
Terms weren’t disclosed. The deal would give Mountain View, California-based Google about 350 travel guides and the Frommers.com travel-planning website. John Wiley, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, said in March it was exploring opportunities to sell publishing assets.
Google is providing more of its own content to Web surfers by adding information on hotels and restaurants around the world, a bid to attract users and advertisers from sites such as Yelp Inc. and TripAdvisor Inc. (TRIP) Travel is an important category for Google, and the company has shown it’s willing to invest in the market, said Sameet Sinha, an analyst at B. Riley & Co.
“The new mantra is, ‘We want you to stay on Google and make this your destination, not just your gateway,’ ” he said. “They need their own content for that.”
To read this article in its entirety, please click the link below
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-13/google-to-buy-frommer-s-travel-publishing-assets-from-john-wiley.html
How Young Is Too Young To Start Tweeting?
MediaBistro.com/All Twitter – by LAUREN DUGAN
Seeing teens on Twitter is nothing shocking. But what about tweens? Elementary schoolers? Preschoolers?
A recent episode of a popular kids’ show had its host use Twitter and Facebook, as well as a “play book”, texting, blogging and emailing for its young audience’s benefit. But is is it too early for toddlers to be learning how to tweet?
During the airing of a recent episode of popular ABC kids’ show Play School, host Matt Passmore not only sat down at his computer and checked his email, but he also sent a tweet and texted a friend, saying, “What can I do while I wait, I know – I will Twitter. Everyone loves my Twitter.”
To read this article in its entirety, please click the link below
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/preschoolers-tweeting_b26750
Link to Broadway Grosses for the week ending August 12, 2012:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/169038-Broadway-Grosses-Aug-6-12
http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm
Current week:
1. Wicked – $2,055,433
2. The Lion King
3. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
4. The Book of Mormon
5. Evita
Last week:
1. The Lion King – $2,013,943
2. Wicked
3. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
4. The Book of Mormon
5. Once
5 Years Ago:
1. Wicked - $1,492,271
2. The Lion King
3. Mary Poppins
4. Jersey Boys
5. The Color Purple
10 Years Ago:
1. The Producers - $1,149,558
2. The Lion King
3. Mamma Mia!
4. Thoroughly Modern Millie
5. 42nd Street
Opening this week:
Off Broadway
Aliee and Bettina’s (sort of) Grown Up Sleep Over – La MaMa E.T.C. First Floor Theater – Monday, August 13
To Carry On…A Tribute to the Life & Music of Laura Nyro – Theatre at St. Clement’s – Monday, August 13
Soul Doctor – New York Theatre Workshop – Monday, August 13
Getting The Business – Clurman Theatre – Monday, August 13
With The Assistance of Queen Anne – TBG Theatre – Wednesday, August 15
The Man With American Skin – American Theatre of Actors Chernuchin Theatre – Thursday, August 16
Playing With Fire – The Box – Friday, August 17
Dream Up Festival – Theater for the New City – Sunday, August 19