I’ve noticed some recent activity on some weblog entries I posted a while ago. Both related to Boston’s arts market, and both warranted a quick catch-up:<\/p>\n
\nThe saga of the Boston Ballet and their production of ‘The Nutcracker’ continues as they prepare to open this year’s effort. As faithful readers might recall, the company was ousted<\/a> from its traditional home in the Wang Center for the Performing Arts to make way for the Clear Channel production of the ‘Radio City Christmas Spectacular.’<\/p>\n \nNow they have refit their production<\/a> to work in a smaller venue with fewer seats and a resulting lower revenue potential. Said the ballet’s director in a moment of pith:<\/p>\n \nIt will be interesting to see how a venue with half the usual seats (Wang had 3600, this year’s space has 1640) will effect the usual cash-cow quality of this production, which also effects the solvency and vitality of the company’s other productions throughout the year.<\/p>\n \nSpeaking of seats, I also had a weblog about the boom in theater space<\/a> in the Boston area back in March. Now, many of those construction\/renovations projects are opening their doors<\/a> or planning to soon. And a bunch of folk are starting to realize the morning-after challenge of that enthusiasm. According to one player in the game:<\/p>\n \nIt all underscores the value of integrating competitive analysis into project plans and budget projections, and trending the full ecology of leisure\/entertainment\/culture options as you sketch out the program for a cultural facility of any kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve noticed some recent activity on some weblog entries I posted a while ago. Both related to Boston’s arts market, and both warranted a quick catch-up: The saga of the Boston Ballet and their production of ‘The Nutcracker’ continues as they prepare to open this year’s effort. As faithful readers might recall, the company was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n‘Yes, Clara, there is a Nutcracker,’ said Valerie Wilder, Boston Ballet’s executive director. ‘And that statement a year ago probably had some questions around it.’
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\n‘I’ve always felt that the tide rises all boats, and more is better,’ says Steven Maler, a founder of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and vice president of artistic programming of the Wang Center for the Performing Arts. ‘I guess I’m starting to revisit my thinking on that.’
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