Mary Poppins Tickets this weekend June 29th & 30th tixx are just $40.00 each

Mary Poppins Tickets this weekend June 29th & 30th tixx are just $40.00 each
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Due to supply and demand tickets for The Police summer tour are selling for a fraction of thier face value

Tixx.com reports that tickets for The Police Summer concert tour can be had for a fraction of the printed ticket price in most cities, due to supply and demand the tickets are selling for as little as $15.00 each



Tickets for tonight's show in Dallas are priced at Ticketmaster.com are priced $90-225.00 per ticket ( Ticketmaster is no longer selling the $50.00 tickets)



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street scalpers were selling tickets last week in Los Angeles for $25.00 each outside the venue

Internet radio stations to protest royalty hikes

Internet radio stations to protest royalty hikes
They will replace music with silence today to fight royalty rate hikes.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Times Staff Writer
June 26, 2007


WASHINGTON — Across the Internet, the music will die today.

It's a protest staged by online radio stations to preview what they say will happen when substantially higher royalty rates kick in next month, silencing for good stations that can't afford them.

Thousands of webcasters will replace their music streams today with periods of silence and occasional messages about the dispute, urging people to press Congress to reverse the royalty rate and fee increase set by a federal board. But despite growing support, Congress is unlikely to act before July 15, when the new rates take effect.

That leaves Internet radio operators hoping that a federal court will grant an emergency stay, or that negotiations with SoundExchange, the organization that collects and distributes Internet music royalties, will lead to lower rates and fees.

"It's not a moneymaking venture; it's a labor of love," said Ted Leibowitz, 39, a software engineer who runs BAGeL Radio from his San Francisco apartment.

He pays about $1,000 a year to broadcast "indie rock" 24 hours a day, sending out about 40,000 music streams a month through Live365.com, an Internet radio service based in Foster City, Calif. The new royalty rates threaten to shut down Live365, and Leibowitz estimates that he would have to pay more than $100,000 a year in royalties and fees to keep his station going.

"Even if I was a wealthy man," he said, "that would be a very expensive hobby."

So BAGeL Radio is joining Yahoo Music, MTV Online, Rhapsody and other sites in the National Day of Silence led by SaveNetRadio, a coalition of large and small webcasters and artists opposing the royalty hike. Many of those sites will point their listeners to an hourlong forum on the issue being aired continuously today by KCRW-FM (89.9) in Santa Monica, which may have to cut back its Internet music streaming if the rates take effect.

The webcasters are protesting a decision in March by the Copyright Royalty Board, an obscure group of federal judges. The current rate of 0.08 of a cent per listener each time a song is played will more than double by 2010. The board also set a $500-a-year administrative fee for each channel a webcaster broadcasts, and removed an alternative rate structure for small sites that capped royalties at 10% to 12% of their revenue.

Many webcasters will have to pay a large lump sum July 15 because the new rates and fees are retroactive to the start of 2006, when the old rates expired.

The ruling sparked outrage on the Internet, where about 72 million listeners a month tune in Internet music stations as an alternative to broadcast and satellite radio.

Despite the royalty ruling, SoundExchange can strike separate deals with websites. John Simson, the organization's executive director, said negotiations were continuing and dismissed fears of an Internet radio apocalypse July 15.

"We're going to be very busy the next two weeks," he said.

The $500-a-channel fee is as controversial as the per-song royalty hike. Live365, for example, has about 10,000 channels, many of which are run by hobbyists, who pay as little as $10 a month for the company to handle their technology needs and royalties.

Chief Executive N. Mark Lam estimates that Live365 will owe $7 million on July 15. The company made about $7,000 profit on $8.7 million in revenue last year — its first annual profit since launching in 1999. He predicted the new rates would kill the company.

Yahoo Music and Pandora have a similar problem because they create personalized music channels for thousands of listeners, all subject to the $500 fee. Ian Rogers, general manager of Yahoo Music, estimated the company would have to pay about $750 million in that fee alone.

Legislation has been introduced in the House and the Senate to roll back the royalty rate and fee increases. Although the House bill has 119 co-sponsors, there's almost no chance that it can get through Congress before July 15.

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), the lead sponsor of the House bill, said he would continue to push for passage after the deadline. "We're just not going to let this nascent industry die and we're not going to let people's websites go blank," he said.

three remaining members of Led Zeppelin - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones - have announced they will reunite in London

The three remaining members of Led Zeppelin - Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones - have announced they will reunite in London for a one-off memorial concert in honour of Ahmet Ertegun, the late founder of Atlantic Records who died last December after falling at a Rolling Stones concert. The trio will also consider the possibility a world tour if the show goes off without any hitches. As expected, the son of original Led Zep drummer John Bonham, Jason Bonham, will fill in on the skins.

The reunion marks the first time Page, Plant and Jones have been on stage together for a concert since 1985's Live Aid performance. Page & Plant infamously excluded Jones from the '90s comeback, which resulted in two albums, 1994's No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded and 1998's Walking into Clarksdale.

A source close to Dotmusic revealed, "Page, Plant and Jones spoke and agreed to do the memorial concert. They are waiting for a definite date. And no-one can quite believe it, but during discussions about the concert they all gave the green light to a tour if it all does well and they don't all fall out. "It has been hoped-for and denied for years. But this is the closest they have ever come to a reunion tour. The feeling is that this is going to happen next year."

Ticketmaster service fee is 17 to 29 percent

Concert Promoters Finding Ways to Sidestep Ticketmaster
Posted: 06-20-2007 03:04 PM

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Concert Promoters Finding Ways to Sidestep Ticketmaster

So you want to see a concert this summer. You're daunted by the prices, but you decide to take the plunge and buy tickets online for a favorite artist. Just before committing to pay on your credit card, you discover the total is 25 percent higher than what you expected to pay. What gives?

The biggest extra charge is the "convenience fee" added by Ticketmaster: The cost averages $10 per ticket, but can climb much higher.

"The ticket prices are not the problem; it is the additional fees that are a problem," local music fan Brian Hoekstra wrote in an e-mail to the Sun-Times typical of many complaints from concertgoers. He and his son went to see Ted Nugent at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, Ind. The price was $27 per ticket, but they wound up paying $40.50 each. "Sometimes the fees add up to half of the original ticket price!"

For years, consumers have complained about the big jump in the cost of tickets purchased from Ticketmaster during a two-minute transaction online or by phone. But given the lock the ticketing giant has on many venues in the Chicago area, concertgoers had no choice: They had to buy from Ticketmaster or not at all, since many venues didn't have box offices where tickets could be purchased in person without fees.

But two weeks ago, the Chicago office of national concert promoters Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel) announced it is now selling tickets for all of its big summer shows -- at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis., and the Charter One Pavilion on Northerly Island -- at the House of Blues box office, 329 N. Dearborn, with no service charges added, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. (Live Nation bought HOB last year, and it owns or controls the other venues.)

"This is really a local customer service effort," said Live Nation spokesman John Vlautin. "The benefit customers get by coming to the HOB box office to buy these tickets is that they don't have to pay a service or handling fee and they can conveniently pick up the tickets if they work or live downtown."

Live Nation's major rival, Jam Productions, does not have a central location where fans can buy tickets to all of its shows, but it maintains box offices at two of the venues it owns, the Vic Theatre on the North Side and the Park West in Lincoln Park, and concertgoers can purchase tickets for shows at those venues without service fees. The company also notes that many of the other venues where it promotes concerts -- including the Allstate Arena, the United Center, the Metro, the Aragon Ballroom and the Chicago, Auditorium, Riviera and Rosemont theaters -- have box offices where concertgoers can purchase seats without Ticketmaster fees. (Hours vary at each, and some are only open on the day tickets go on sale and/or the day of the show, so always call ahead.)

Ticketmaster unplugged

An examination of Ticketmaster service charges this season reveals that the ticketing company adds convenience fees ranging from 17 to 29 percent to the advertised ticket prices for Live Nation shows and from 8 to 13 percent for tickets to Jam shows. Why are the service fees for Jam concerts lower than those for Live Nation concerts?

"We fight for the fans to pay less for service charges -- we're on their side," Jam co-founder Jerry Mickelson said. He added that a portion of the Ticketmaster convenience fee for venues Live Nation owns, including the FMBA, reverts to Live Nation.

"A percentage of service charges is often kicked back by Ticketmaster to promoters and venues, giving them a vested interest in keeping service charges high," alternative rockers Pearl Jam charged in a memo to the Justice Department written in 1994, during the height of their battle with Ticketmaster (see sidebar). In 2003, Rolling Stone reported that the convenience fee is divided with 30 to 40 percent for the venue, 25 percent for the ticket outlets and the rest after expenses as profit for Ticketmaster.

"All I can tell you about how the Ticketmaster fees are set is that they're scaled to the size of the show and the venue," Live Nation's Vlautin said. He added that only Ticketmaster can comment about how its fees are set and how that money is divided.

Ed Stewart, Ticketmaster's Los Angeles-based vice-president of corporate communications, declined to comment or answer numerous questions posed to the company for this story.

Stay tuned

The big news for frustrated consumers is that a major change could be in the works: The concert industry has been buzzing for months that Live Nation may begin selling tickets for all of its concerts itself. It is currently Ticketmaster's single largest client, but that contract expires next year, and Live Nation owns a stake in two major independent companies, Next Ticketing and MusicToday.com, which both rival Ticketmaster's capabilities for selling tickets online.

If Live Nation cuts Ticketmaster out of the transaction and sells tickets direct to concertgoers, industry experts say that it will be able to keep more of the ticketing revenue for itself -- and hopefully reduce service fees for concertgoers.

"We're in the midst of talking through next steps with Ticketmaster," Vlautin said, "so it wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment on that."

Tarzan closes on Broadway July 8th

It's a vine mess as 'Tarzan' plops

Sunday, June 24th 2007, 8:46 PM
"Tarzan" is finding out that New York really is a jungle.

The Broadway show based on the branch-hopping Disney character is set to close July 8 after 486 performances because it isn't making enough money.

"I am disappointed that the Broadway production of 'Tarzan' will close earlier than any of us had hoped, and I would have loved for it to have been as successful in New York as it now is in Holland," Thomas Schumacher, of Disney Theatrical Productions, told The Associated Press.

Despite a score by pop star Phil Collins, "Tarzan" was dogged by negative reviews on Broadway.

The Cure Announce Full Fall US Tour - Tickets On Sale

BREAKING NEWS: The Cure Announce Full Fall US Tour - Tickets On Sale June 28
Yes, it's official. No more toying with us, making only random festival appearances here
and there, both few and far between. The Cure -- they of the badly drawn lipstick,
artfully disheveled tresses, and gift for bridging the goth gap between mope and merriment
-- are heading back to North American shores this Fall.

The Head On the Door. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. Disintegration. Standing on a
Beach, the Singles. The mere mention of any one of these landmark releases is enough to
send paroxysms of dreamy nostalgia through my entire being. Yes, I'm a dork. But what
can I say, The Cure were a defining force in music for more folk than just me. And that's
precisely why this tour is going to be big, baby, big.

The first round of tickets go on sale next Thursday, 6/28! Dates will continue to roll
out over the subsequent weeks, so keep your eyes peeled on the link below for your city.

BUY CURE TICKETS (Hold your horses til 6/28, Mr. Enthusiastic!)

Thu-Sep-13 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
Sat-Sep-15 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center
Mon-Sep-17 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Bobcats Arena
Wed-Sep-19 Washington DC Patriot Center
Fri-Sep-21 Philadelphia , PA Wachovia Spectrum
Sun-Sep-23 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Tue-Sep-25 Boston, MA Agganis Arena
Wed-Sep-26 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Thu-Sep-27 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Sat-Sep-29 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
Tue-Oct-02 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Thu-Oct-04 Salt Lake City, UT E Center
Sat-Oct-06 San Francisco, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre - Download Festival
Mon-Oct-08 Seattle, WA Key Arena
Tue-Oct-09 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place
Thu-Oct-11 Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Bowl
Sat-Oct-13 San Diego, CA Cox Arena
Sun-Oct-14 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
Tue-Oct-16 Houston, TX Toyota Center
Wed-Oct-17 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center

The opening band will be 65 Days Of Static. And what you really want to know: Is this
really The Cure, or just a bunch of studio musicians accompanying Robert Smith?
According to their lovely publicity peeps, "Led as always by lead singer/guitarist Robert
Smith, the Cure line-up comprises longtime members bass player Simon Gallup, drummer
Jason Cooper and, back in the band for a third time, guitarist Porl Thompson." Oh happy
day!

Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein ticket prices listed

 

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Color Purple tickets this Saturday $40 each 2pm show

Color Purple tickets this Saturday $40 each 2pm show

Tixx.com has The Color purple tickets listed in their members only newsletter for Saturday June 23rd 2pm show $40.00 each call 1-800-688-4000 mention code 45cl for this offer

Mel Brooks new Muscial Young Frankenstein top ticket is $451.00

We have it on good authority that the next Mel Brooks musical to hit Broadway will be Box Offfice offical source tickets,priced at $450,$275, and a limited amount of rear orchestra seating at $120, Front balcony seating $121.00 and rear balcony seating $85-$60 each ...these are the weekend prices they are lower during the week

We are not sure what to make of these prices, can you imagine if the tickets ever went to the tkts line at half price, you would see tourist faint when they were told $225 per ticket was half price " but lady your sitting in the 5th row center"...lol


COMING TO BROADWAY THIS FALL!

PERFORMANCES BEGIN OCT. 11TH, 2007

OPENING NIGHT: NOVEMBER 8TH, 2007

AT THE HILTON THEATRE

Pre-Broadway World Premiere Engagement at Seattle's Paramount Theatre August 7th - September 1st

Starring Roger Bart (as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (as Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (as Inga), Shuler Hensley (as The Monster), Andrea Martin (Frau Blucher), Fred Applegate (as Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (as Igor)!

leave your comments below...would you buy a ticket to a show no one has ever seen at these box office prices

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The Police tour ticket are going for $25.00 each in LA tonight

www.tixx.com has the bargain of the year see The Police this summer for $25.00 each thats right $25.00 each tnight in LA Staples center The Police
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When the three members of the Police announced that they would reunite for a seven-month global tour, it stunned rock fans and many music-industry insiders.

After 23 long years of begging from fans and lucrative offers from promoters, the biggest rock band of the '80s finally relented.
But does anyone care... take a look at the secoundary ticket market for The Ploice tour this is the true indicator of fan demand and right now there is zero demand for tickets to see The Police Tour 2007. for tickets to any city now is the time to buy go to www.wwwtixx.com for tickets in most cities for 1/2 price





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Opening on Broadway Soon, a New Look for TKTS and Father Duffy Square

its already 7 months late and still far from completion








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May 2, 2006
Opening on Broadway Soon, a New Look for TKTS and Father Duffy Square
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
Remember back at the turn of the century when they were going to replace the perennially temporary TKTS booth in Duffy Square with a brand new pavilion topped by a ruby-red spectators' bleacher overlooking the theater district?

They still are. But now, seven years into the planning, the city and theater-district groups are going to rehabilitate Duffy Square, too: expanding its edges for a 37 percent gain in space, repaving it with illuminated panels set into granite and tearing down the fence around the statue of the Rev. Francis P. Duffy.

On the occasion of Father Duffy's 135th birthday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is to preside at a groundbreaking today for the $12.5 million project. A truly temporary TKTS booth opened nearby yesterday at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.

Crowning the new Duffy Square will be a glass staircase to nowhere, 27 steps high (three more than in the three broad staircases in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). With room for more than 1,000 people to sit on the staircase, it would be a kind of public amphitheater to the spectacle of Times Square immediately to the south.

"I think it's going to be New York's Spanish Steps," said Brendan Sexton, an adviser to the Coalition for Father Duffy, who was a member of the jury that chose the design for the new TKTS booth in 1999. He was also the president of what is now called the Times Square Alliance.

The current president, Tim Tompkins, jumped in to add, "The Spanish Steps on steroids."

The alliance, which runs the business improvement district, envisions a new Duffy Square as the keystone in its plan to improve street life in the overcrowded Broadway-Seventh Avenue vortex. "There is so much clutter in Times Square, this will be a striking shift," Mr. Tompkins said. "Finally, there'll be a place where you can sit down and look."

The Theater Development Fund, which runs the TKTS discount ticket program, hopes that people who flock to this new gathering place will also become theatergoers.

"I imagine a person sitting there having lunch and saying, 'What's going on here?' " said Victoria Bailey, the executive director. Perhaps that person would end lunch hour at one of the 12 windows in the new fiberglass TKTS booth tucked under the staircase at 47th Street. "We'll be able to sell much more efficiently," Ms. Bailey said.

There are 10 windows in the current setup, which consists of two trailers surrounded by a network of pipes and sail-like vinyl panels emblazoned with huge red t's and k's and s's. This was designed by Mayers & Schiff in 1973 as a temporary measure. It is now old enough to be eligible for landmark status.

Indeed, some of the panels may be acquired by the Museum of the City of New York, said Veronica Claypool, the managing director of the fund.

The architects of the new TKTS pavilion and Duffy Square are Perkins Eastman and William Fellows Architects, working from a concept by two Australian architects, John Choi and Tai Ropiha, who won a 1999 competition sponsored by the Van Alen Institute.

"The whole intent was to take the essence of that concept and make a glowing, floating, red amphitheater," said Nicholas S. Leahy, a principal in Perkins Eastman.

The steps will be made of three-layer laminated glass panels, one-and-a-half inches thick. They will be 45 feet wide at the top, tapering to 32 feet. The treads will be two feet deep, almost twice as deep as those at the Met. Panels under the steps will supply heat to melt snow and cooling for the light-emitting diodes that will illuminate the entire staircase. Glass panels will border the edges.

Given that a seated person typically occupies about two square feet, the steps could conceivably hold more than 1,000 people.

The top of the steps will be 16 feet above the sidewalk, as high as the current pipe structure and just slightly lower than the top of the Celtic cross that is a backdrop to the statue of Father Duffy. That was important to the Father Duffy coalition.

Father Duffy, who died in 1932, was most famously chaplain to the Fighting 69th Regiment in World War I. He was also pastor of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church at 329 West 42nd Street.

Bruce Meyerson, who served in the 69th Regiment as a first lieutenant and is now chairman of the coalition, said he was pleased with the overall plan for Duffy Square. "The entire site works," he said. "Everything blends together."

It took a lot of mixing to blend.

Construction was supposed to begin in 2000. Then the leadership of the Theater Development Fund changed hands. Then terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, slowing down many projects in the city and affecting the theater fund more directly, because it had a booth at the trade center. The downtown TKTS booth has since reopened in the South Street Seaport.

Then, as the concept was translated into real plans, the fund incorporated the needs of the alliance, which wanted a better streetscape, and those of the coalition, which wanted a better setting for the Father Duffy statue. Then there was give and take with New York City Transit and the City Department of Transportation.

Then the financing had to be cobbled together: $5.5 million from the mayor's office, $4 million from the City Council, $1.5 million from the alliance, $1 million from the fund and $500,000 from the coalition.

The project now seems to be under way. And because the major structural elements are prefabricated, the completion date is not too distant.

"It is our intent and hope to have it ready for Dec. 31st," Mr. Tompkins said. He meant 2006.



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The Police tour ticket sales SINK,tickets going for 1/2 price in most cities

You can see The Police 2007 tour in most cities for 1/3 to 1/2 the face value of the tickets. Tickets to see the Police this week can be bought for $40 each in most cities for upper level seating and prices are declining in most cities. Madison Square Garden tickets are still pricey but the shows in New York are one of the few expensive ticket of the tour


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Former 'NSYNC, Backstreet Boys Manager Lou Pearlman Arrested

Former 'NSYNC, Backstreet Boys Manager Lou Pearlman Arrested In Indonesia
Authorities seek the boy-band mogul to discuss fraud allegations.
By Gil Kaufman

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After nearly six months off the radar, former boy band mogul Lou Pearlman was arrested in Indonesia on Thursday, where FBI officials took him into custody.

Authorities have been seeking Pearlman in the midst of an investigation into allegations that he was behind a bogus investment scheme that defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and banks out of an additional $150 million. According to the Orlando Sentinel, authorities in Indonesia expelled Pearlman and then turned him over to U.S. authorities.

"We are aware that he is in the custody of the FBI, I can't comment beyond that," Steve Cole, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa, told the paper.

The arrest comes just days after thousands of items from Pearlman's Trans Continental empire were auctioned in Florida to help raise money to pay back some of the allegedly defrauded investors (see "'NSYNC, Backstreet Boys Relics To Be Sold In Lou Pearlman Auction"); only $200,000 from the sale of boy-band memorabilia, office furniture and plane parts was rung up at the auction.

Pearlman, who once managed the Backstreet Boys and 'NSYNC (see "Backstreet Boys Sue Former Manager — Again"), was being flown to the U.S. territory of Guam at press time to make his initial appearance before a judge, the Sentinel reported.

Pearlman has been out of the country since January, when he left Orlando to reportedly accompany his latest boy band, US5, to Europe for a tour just as his once-massive empire was falling apart amid the bank-fraud allegations. While he was out of the U.S., involuntary bankruptcy proceedings against him and his dozens of companies went forward, as did a federal criminal probe and a number of lawsuits from the more than 1,000 investors who were allegedly cheated.

The paper reported that Pearlman mailed a letter to an Orlando attorney in early February that had a return address in Indonesia.

Live Nation pulls the plug on American Idol tours Kelly Clarkson

Well we all knew this was coming when we had zero request for tickets to this years tour, and after he less than stellar performance on American Idol this season we all knew her tour would be a stinker. Tom Wilson Marketing Vp for Tixx.com stated that this tour had no direction and no passion from the fans. Wilson states I think her career is over, Britney Spear and her should get together and tour

Chris Cornell Summer Tour 2007 video and tickets link

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Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964) is an American guitarist/singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the rock bands Soundgarden (1984-1997) and later Audioslave (2001-2007). He was also the frontman for Temple of the Dog (1990-1992). He began his musical career as a drummer, before moving on to become a singer and guitarist. He also enjoyed acclaim as a solo performer with his first solo album Euphoria Morning (September 1999). Its follow-up Carry On was released in June 2007.

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Full list of Tony Award winners

Full list of Tony Award winners
A British playwright's nine-hour epic trilogy and a post-rock musical of teenage sexual anxiety dominated this year's Tony Awards.

Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia won seven prizes, including best play, and Spring Awakening captured a record eight awards, including best musical.

Here is a list of all the winners at the 61st annual Tony awards, which celebrate "excellence on Broadway":

Spring Awakening - best musical, score, book of a musical (Steven Sater), director of a musical (Michael Mayer), featured actor of a musical (John Gallagher Junior), lighting design of a musical (Kevin Adams), choreography (Bill T Jones), and orchestrations (Duncan Sheik).

The Coast of Utopia (THE PLAY HAS CLOSED)- best play, director of a play (Jack O'Brien), featured actor of a play (Billy Crudup), featured actress of a play (Jennifer Ehle), scenic design of a play (Bob Crowley and Scott Pask), costumes of a play (Catherine Zuber), and lighting design of a play (Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner and Natasha Katz).

Grey Gardens - best actress of a musical (Christine Ebersole), featured actress of a musical (Mary Louise Wilson), costumes of a musical (William Ivey Long).

Curtains - best actor of a musical (David Hyde Pierce).

Company - best revival of a musical.

Frost/Nixon - best actor of a play (Frank Langella).

The Little Dog Laughed - best actress of a play (Julie White).

Mary Poppins - best scenic design of a musical (Bob Crowley).

Journey's End - best revival of a play.

Jay Johnson: The Two and Only - best special theatrical event.

Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia - Regional Theatre Tony Award.

'Utopia' and 'Spring Awakening' Dominate Tonys

'Utopia' and 'Spring Awakening' Dominate Tonys


NEW YORK (AP) -- "Spring Awakening," a pounding post-rock musical of teenage sexual anxiety, and Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia," a sprawling tale of 19th century Russian intellectuals, dominated the 2007 Tony Awards Sunday.

The musical picked up the best score award for Duncan Sheik and lyricist Steven Sater, who also received the prize for book of a musical. "Musical theater rocks," said Sheik, who also won for orchestrations.

"Steven and I definitely set out to make a new kind of musical," Sheik said. "We were trying to forge our own path. I think we got lucky timing-wise, what's happening politically. People were ready to deal with something that had teeth."

John Gallagher Jr., who portrays a manic student in the show, received the featured-actor musical prize. "Heaven must feel like this," enthused the 22-year-old Gallagher. Later backstage, he said, "I can't feel anything right now, not even my arms. It's an honor and a thrill that never in a million years would I dream for myself."

they end of the Journey for The Sopranos

Journey.
Onion rings.
Parallel parking.
Fade to black.

sorry to see the best show on tellyvison gone...too bad the BOSS never made an apperance

Who's got Tony Sopranos ticket ?

Beyond simple spoiler searches, fans hoping to gain advance intelligence about the story's conclusion are busy looking for "sopranos rumors," "sopranos ending," and "sopranos message boards."

Other enterprising fans are using the Search box for the answers to looming questions. The most popular query is also the most direct—searches on "how will the sopranos end" jumped 254% yesterday. Other questions on the minds of Sopranos watchers include "does tony soprano die" and "what will happen to tony soprano."

Talking the Tony Awards

Handicapping the Tonys
Who'll win -- and who cares?
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You can count on one thing about this year's Tony Awards: The ratings will be lousy. They always are. Theater is an important part of American culture, but it isn't an important part of the life of the average American TV viewer, and even the highbrows who usually tune in the Tonys are more likely to be watching the last episode of "The Sopranos" Sunday night.

For those who care about theater, the news is in the nominations, and more specifically in four categories: best play, best revival of a play, best musical, and best revival of a musical. Of the 35 shows that opened on Broadway during the 2006-07 season, 16 have been nominated in these categories. Which ones will win, and which -- if any -- should win? It is in the answers to these questions that the Tonys offer a crystal-clear snapshot of the sickly state of Broadway.

The shows I expect to win are in italics:

• BEST PLAY: "The Coast of Utopia," "Frost/Nixon," "The Little Dog Laughed," "Radio Golf."


The surprising box-office success of Tom Stoppard's long, demanding trilogy of plays about the origins of Marxism would seem at first glance to bode well for Broadway's artistic health. But "The Coast of Utopia" was produced by Lincoln Center Theater, a nonprofit company far from the theater district whose status as a "Broadway house" is purely technical. New plays are rarely to be found on Broadway anymore: "Frost/Nixon" is a British import and "The Little Dog Laughed" an Off Broadway transfer that flopped, while "Radio Golf," August Wilson's last play, made the rounds of regional theaters for two years before finally coming to New York. Nor are any of the latter three plays good enough to deserve a Tony (though "Frost/Nixon" is vastly entertaining in its shallow way). Except for "The Coast of Utopia," only one new play of real literary distinction, David Hare's "The Vertical Hour," opened on Broadway last season.

• BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY: "Inherit the Wind," "Journey's End," "Talk Radio," "Translations."


R.C. Sherriff's hopelessly dated 1928 play about the horrors of World War I never found an audience and closes tomorrow, but it's likely to win anyway, propelled to victory by voters who see it as a statement against the war in Iraq. "Inherit the Wind" is a bad revival of a bad play; "Talk Radio" a good revival of a fair play. The Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Brian Friel's "Translations," by contrast, was a matchless revival of a great play -- but it originated out of town, at Princeton's McCarter Theater Center, meaning that Broadway gets no credit for its excellence.

• BEST MUSICAL: "Curtains," "Grey Gardens," "Mary Poppins," "Spring Awakening."


"Spring Awakening" can't lose. It's a rock 'n' roll musical about teen angst that's full of four-letter words and simulated sex. Unfortunately, it also has an unmemorable score. So do "Curtains" and "Grey Gardens." So did "Legally Blonde: The Musical" (which was passed over by Tony nominators who found it totally lowbrow). So did every other new musical that opened on Broadway this past season. That's not a fluke -- it's a trend, and a scary one. The only "new" Broadway musical of the 2006-07 season with a strong score is "LoveMusik," and its songs were written by Kurt Weill, who died in 1950. The new songs added to the stage version of "Mary Poppins" aren't bad, but much of the score is similarly recycled from the 1964 movie. Of the Broadway musicals I've reviewed since becoming the Journal's drama critic four years ago, the only ones with new scores that were truly distinguished were "The Light in the Piazza" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."

• BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: "The Apple Tree," "A Chorus Line," "Company," "110 in the Shade."


This one's anybody's guess. Me, I'd give the prize to John Doyle's revelatory production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company," but it wasn't quite so well received as Mr. Doyle's 2005 revival of Mr. Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," so my guess is that "110 in the Shade," which got adequate notices (I loved it) and brought the incomparable Audra McDonald back to Broadway, will get the nod instead.

Note, however, that two of these shows, "110 in the Shade" and "The Apple Tree," were small-scale, limited-run productions by the nonprofit Roundabout Theatre Company, while "Company" came to New York from Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park -- yet another sign of creative trouble on Broadway. Fully half of the shows that opened there this past season were produced by nonprofit New York companies, or transferred to Broadway from nonprofit regional companies, or were imported from London.

As for the 16 shows nominated for best-play and best-musical Tonys, seven have closed or are closing shortly, while three others, "Company," "Radio Golf" and "Talk Radio," are struggling at the box office.

All this suggests that American theater is in the doldrums -- if you go by the Tony Awards. But when you venture out of the theater district of Manhattan, as I do most weeks, you soon discover that there's far more to American theater than Broadway. Most of the best plays I saw last season were either presented Off Broadway or by such regional companies as Baltimore's CenterStage, Boston's American Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Los Angeles's Geffen Playhouse, New Haven, Conn.'s Long Wharf Theater, San Diego's Old Globe, Seattle's Intiman Theatre and Washington's Studio Theatre. That's the new reality of drama in America. When Broadway is good, there's no place better -- but nowadays there are plenty of other places that are just as good, more consistent in artistic quality and infinitely less expensive

Bon Jovi tour dates tickets to go onsale next week

Bon Jovi offers package deal for Jersey venue opening

Bon Jovi tickets will help celebrate the opening of Newark, NJ's Prudential Center this fall with a string of shows and a first-time program that bundles advance concert tickets with a digital album.
The band has partnered with Ticketmaster (LiveDaily's parent company) to offer the deal in which a digital download of Bon Jovi's forthcoming album, "Lost Highway," will be packaged with every concert ticket purchased through an exclusive online presale that begins June 12.

Fans who purchase the ticket/album package will receive a code from Ticketmaster that enables them to download "Lost Highway" from iTunes beginning June 19, the day the album is set to hit stores.

The presale will be available exclusively to American Express cardmembers June 12-14, and then to the general public June 15-22. General on-sales without the digital album begin June 23.

Bon Jovi's shows at the Prudential Center begin Oct. 25; the rest of the dates have yet to be announced. The facility is the first major sports/entertainment venue to open its doors in the Tri-state area in more than 25 years.

Meanwhile, Bon Jovi will set out on a tour of North American festivals next month to support "Lost Highway." Gigs include the July 7 Live Earth concert in East Rutherford, NJ, which is part of a massive event across all seven continents to bring attention to the climate crisis. Since last check, Bon Jovi has added a July 12 stop in Edmonton, Alberta, a city the band hasn't visited since 1995. The itinerary is listed below.

In the midst of all these plans, reports have surfaced that longtime Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora has entered a Los Angeles treatment facility for an undisclosed problem. "He asks that you respect he and his family's privacy at this time," a band spokesperson said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. It is unclear if Sambora's treatment will affect his role in the group.

"Lost Highway" is Bon Jovi's ninth album of original material. The first single, "(You Want to) Make a Memory," was released to radio in March. The video can be accessed at Bon Jovi's website.

The new album follows 2005's platinum-selling "Have a Nice Day," which spawned the Grammy-winning duet "Who Says You Can't Go Home" with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles.

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"Jersey" a musical for all Seasons By Jay Reiner
Mon Jun 4, 9:58 PM ET

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The best thing about "Jersey Boys" -- last year's Tony winner for best musical -- is that it's not just about the music of '60s icon Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. And this is saying something in a show that features 33 songs, many of them soft-pop classics, and nearly all of them guaranteed to have you dancing in your seat.

The real star of the show is Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's brilliantly entertaining book. These two wizards obviously weren't content to turn the story they had in mind into another jukebox musical. Instead, they've done their homework and created a first-rate piece of Americana as well as a backstage musical that shines with intelligence and wit. When the evening draws to a close, the audience is being carried along on a wave of musical and dramatic energy that, if it had its way, would probably go on indefinitely.

The show uses several narrators to keep us in touch with the story line. Cleverly, Valli is not one of those narrators, which has the effect of letting other members of the group share the spotlight. This is a good choice because the other characters are interesting in their own right, and we're reminded that "Jersey Boys" really is about all of these guys.

First up is Tommy DeVito, the toughest, roughest and rawest (Jersey language is not for sissies) of the boys. Deven May gives Tommy a swagger and attitude that is strictly streetwise, Italian-American Jersey, with an aggressive touch of irony to show off his smarts. Tommy is the one who scraped this group together off the dead-end streets of Jersey and then held them together until his vices finally outmuscled his virtues. May is terrific in the part.

Bob Gaudio (an excellent Erich Bergen), the musical genius who wrote most of the hit songs that turned a bunch of Jersey wannabes into the Four Seasons, is the next narrator. Bob is the polar opposite of Tommy, an intellectual with no sexual experience to speak of when we first meet him, which can't be said of anyone else we meet, male or female. Bob gives the group its first big hit, "Sherry," and the new sound that becomes their trademark. Other Four Season hits we hear are "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man," "My Eyes Adored You," "C'Mon Marianne" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You."

Nick Massi (Michael Ingersoll), the Seasons' other member, fills us in on some of the backstage drama as the group rises to the top of the charts, stays there for a few years, then gradually disintegrates. It's a roller-coaster ride told with all the thrills and spills intact.

As for Valli, the musical spine of the evening, Christopher Kale Jones does a beautiful job developing the character as well as singing his heart out. It's a stirring performance because as we watch Valli and the others grow up, we hear the songs and the singing change coloration to reflect what's going on in their lives.

It's hard to measure director Des McAnuff's contribution to the evening, but clearly it's huge. The stage is alive at all times, and the transitions are seamless to the point of seeming filmic. Also turning in a winning performance is John Altieri as Bob Crewe, the gay impresario and lyricist with a razor-sharp tongue for every occasion. Joseph Siravo is local boss Gyp DeCarlo, and Jackie Seiden is Mary Delgado, Valli's first wife. Sergio Trujillo's choreography is imaginative and vibrant.

Cast:

Frankie Valli: Christopher Kale Jones

Tommy DeVito: Deven May

Bob Gaudio: Erich Bergen

Nick Massi: Michael Ingersoll

Bob Crewe: John Altieri

Gyp DeCarlo: Joseph Siravo

Mary Delgado: Jackie Seiden

Nick DeVito: Miles Aubrey

Frankie's mother: Melissa Strom

Angel: Sandra DeNise

Book: Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice; Director: Des McAnuff; Music: Bob Gaudio; Lyrics: Bob Crewe; Choreographer: Sergio Trujillo; Scenic designer: Klara Zieglerova; Lighting designer: Howard Binkley; Costume designer: Jess Goldstein; Sound designer: Steve Canyon Kennedy; Projection designer: Michael Clark; Orchestrations: Steve Orich; Music coordinator: John Miller; Conductor: Andrew Wilder; Music direction, vocal arrangements, incidental music: Ron Melrose.

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Personal data found hidden in iTunes tracks

Personal data found hidden in iTunes tracks
Names, e-mails and other sensitive information embedded in filesRhys Blakely
Fresh privacy fears have been sparked after it emerged that Apple has embedded personal information into music files bought from its iTunes online music store.

Technology websites examining iTunes products discovered that personal data, including the name and e-mail addresses of purchasers, are embedded into the AAC files that Apple uses to distribute music tracks.

The information is also included in tracks sold under Apple’s iTunes Plus system, launched this week, where users pay a premium for music that is free from the controversial digital rights (DRM) software that is designed to safeguard against piracy.

The Electronic Freedom Foundation, the online consumer rights group, added that it had identified a large amount of additional unaccounted-for information in iTunes files. It said it was possible that the data could be used to “watermark” tracks so that the original purchaser could be tracked down were a track to appear on a file-sharing network.

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Ars Technica, among the first websites to unveil the hidden information, said: “Everyone should be aware that while DRM-free files may lift a lot of restrictions on our personal usage habits, it doesn't mean that we can just start sharing the love, so to speak. Sharer beware.”

An Apple spokeswoman was unable to comment when contacted by Times Online.

The discovery of the data, of which most iTunes users will have been unaware, underscores the reluctance of music groups to allow music to circulate freely over the web.

With estimates suggesting that 40 tracks are digitally bootlegged for every legally downloaded track, piracy remains a massive problem for the industry and music groups have largely proven reluctant to withdraw the controversial DRM technologies.

Apple had sought to present itself as a consumer champion, with the group’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, insisting earlier this year that his company would drop DRM “in a heartbeat” if allowed to by the labels.

Previously, Apple’s DRM system had been criticised by several European regulators for being anti-competitive because it only allowed tracks to be played on Apple's iPod digital music players.

Apple's iTunes Plus service, launched this week, offers DRM-free music of a higher quality than standard iTunes tracks for 99p a song – compared with 79p for a standard track. Users who opt to pay extra for iTunes Plus tracks will be able to play the music without limitations on the type of music player or number of computers that purchased songs can be played on.

The service is launching with EMI’s digital catalogue of outstanding recordings, including singles and albums from Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink Floyd and John Coltrane.

Steve Jobs, the Apple chief executive, said: “We expect more than half of the songs on iTunes will be offered in iTunes Plus versions by the end of this year.”

Online music sales still account for only 10 per cent of the total market and are not yet growing at a rate which compensates for the decline in revenues from CDs – approximately 2 to 3 per cent per year.

EMI, which has previously released tracks by Norah Jones and Lily Allen without copyright protection, shelved plans to drop DRM on a more widespread basis after iTunes competitors refused to make “risk insurance” payments designed to offset potential losses that would result from the move. It is unclear whether Apple has made any such payment.

Other labels, including Universal Music and Sony BMG, have experimented with offering music without DRM, but none has pursued the strategy as aggressively as EMI.

The iTunes Store has sold over 2.5 billion songs, 50 million TV shows and over two million movies, making it the leader in each of those markets.

New Yorks new ticketing law

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. Eliot Spitzer has signed legislation ending New York's limits on how much scalpers and brokers can legally add to the face price of tickets they are reselling for events held in the state.

The existing law, which was widely ignored, limited markups to 45 percent for tickets to large venues such as Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden, and 20 percent for facilities with fewer than 6,000 seats, including Broadway theaters.

"Our ticket resale laws have needed reform for many years. This is the only market in which the government does not regulate the primary market, the initial price of a product, but then imposes limits on the secondary market, the resale price of the product," Spitzer said Friday. "This law makes sense because it eliminates resale price controls and lets the free market determine prices."

The earlier law expired at midnight Thursday.

Some old regulations stay in place under the new law, including the ban on scalpers selling tickets within 1,500 feet of the larger arenas and within 500 feet of smaller venues.

Large-volume brokers must now register with the state.

Critics said the new law will lead to higher prices in the secondary market. Supporters said it should make tickets more widely available.