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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Breaking news:
Mary McCann Nabs Plum Role in ‘Harper Regan’
ArtsBeat Blog/NYTimes.com – by PATRICK HEALY
The coming Off Broadway premiere of “Harper Regan,” a critically acclaimed British play about family alienation and the limits of loyalty, will star Mary McCann as the title character, one of the richest female roles on tap in New York theater this fall.
Ms. McCann, a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, worked last summer with the “Harper Regan” playwright, Simon Stephens, in the theater’s production of his play “Bluebird,” which starred Simon Russell Beale. “Harper Regan” will run at the Atlantic as well, with preview performances beginning Sept. 20 and opening night on Oct. 10.
The play’s casting, announced on Thursday, also includes Gareth Saxe as Harper’s troubled husband, Mary Beth Peil as her brittle mother, and Madeleine Martin as Harper’s precocious daughter.
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Full company of @ANNIEOnBroadway began rehearsal today in NYC! • • • Mary McCann will star in Simon Stephens’ play HARPER REGAN at Atlantic Theater Company • • • Photo of the Week: THE BOOK OF MORMON Helps One Fan Save Energy (shoutout to astoldbyblondie.tumblr.com) • • • #broadwaybirthdays #Leos RT @ONCEMusical: Happy Birthday to our leading lady, Cristin Milioti! • • • JERSEY BOYS to open in South Africa in April, 2013 via @sharethis @JerseyBoysInfo • • • Between Shows: @SPARKLEMovie starring @JordinSparks and Whitney Houston • • •
Medium, the New Thing From the Twitter Guys, Is…Wait, What, Exactly?
AdAge.com/The Media Guy – by SIMON DUMENCO
Medium, the new platform from Twitter and Blogger creators Evan Williams and Biz Stone, is about “rethinking publishing,” in the words of its founders. Exactly how it will do that isn’t quite clear.
So a lot of the chatter so far has been about trying to just define this mysterious new place to post media — while offering whatever it is a warm embrace (the Twitter guys have accrued a lot of good will in the tech and media communities). Drew Olanoff of The Next Web, for instance, tweeted, “Not short like Twitter, not long like Blogger. It’s….@Medium,” while Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo chimed in with, “I really like the idea behind @Medium. I feel like I’ve been looking for something like this for years.”
But if you want a longer and more, well, poetic take on Medium, check out today’s Nieman Journalism Lab post from Joshua Benton titled “13 ways of looking at Medium, the new blogging/sharing/discovery platform from @ev and Obvious.”
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http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/meet-medium-thing-twitter-guys/236705/
The Billboard Charts ~ Issue Date: 2012-08-25
Billboard Top Broadway Cast Album Catalog:
#1. Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#2. Once: A New Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#3. Newsies, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#4. The Book of Mormon, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#5. Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording