Two exciting things happened this morning, and it’s only 9:10am. <\/p>\n
First, last night, my friend Jaime Green over at Surplus<\/a> e mailed a group of us that there was a “rumor on the internet” that tickets would be going on sale this morning for the ONE NIGHT ONLY revival of Jollyship the Whizbang<\/i><\/a> at The Public Theater. Here is the Times<\/i> review<\/a> from Jollyship’s<\/i> run at Ars Nova two springs ago. It begins, “Pay no attention to this review, because nothing in it will adequately I actually had to name drop my client Gabriel Kahane<\/a> to the Ars Nova<\/a> people to get a fourth ticket to Jollyship<\/i> the first time around, so thank goodness Jaime has her finger on the pulse of theater internet rumors this time. My lawyer friend was given the task of getting the tickets this morning because I assumed she got up earliest. WHAT IF I OVERSLEPT. Lawyers don’t oversleep.<\/p>\n Jollyship<\/i> tickets secured and e mails to colleagues in the UK, Iceland and Germany answered, I decided 8:30am was as good a time as any for a chicken wrap and coffee, and trotted down to the deli. I got my mail en route and whose smiling face was looking up at me? Brian Stokes Mitchell’s. This postcard tells me he has a concert at Town Hall on April 17th<\/a>, and I immediately e mailed my sister that we should get tickets for our mom, who I hope is not reading, for Mother’s Day. <\/p>\n So thank you Jaime and thank you Town Hall postcard, for letting me know about two things I am going to now pay for and go see. But this is what I really want: I want a website on which I can enter my zip code and the names of the artists I want to see in my city. I then want to be e mailed when tickets go on sale for their concerts in my city. <\/p>\n For example, I would type in: And you all would type in: (See what I did there?)<\/p>\n I posted this on Twitter this morning and got a couple responses, thank you @hollychickman<\/a> and @disconotdisco<\/a>. There’s SonicLiving<\/a>, self-described as “the Internet’s leading concert discovery service,
\nconvey the demented brilliance of ‘Jollyship the Whiz-Bang,’ a puppet
\nshow within a rock show (or perhaps it’s the other way around) now
\noccupying Ars Nova.” You can listen to the music here<\/a>. <\/p>\n
Pierre Laurent Aimard
The Emerson String Quartet
Anything to do with Thomas Ades
Frightened Rabbit
Michael Cerveris
etc.<\/p>\n
Hilary Hahn
Eric Owens
The King’s Singers
etc.<\/p>\n
\nconnecting music fans online and in-person through communities created
\naround live shows of their favorite bands,” and iLike<\/a>, which gives “personalized concert alerts from your favorite artists in iTunes.” The thing is, I don’t need Pandora-esque taste helpers; I know what I like, generally, and just want to know when I can see it here. That shouldn’t be too hard, right? The site could just scan presenter and community listings for names, and you could enter the distance you’d be willing to travel from your zip code. <\/p>\n