Programming for a place like Proctors is an exercise in patience and growing a thick skin.
My favorite criticism is when folks realize that we don’t make a ton of money on our shows (remember supply and demand from school? Works for performance fees too!), “Well, just don’t book the losers!
I want to slap my hand onto my forehead! Of course, why didn’t I think of that!
Then, I book some losers on purpose. Art. Dance. Music. Isn’t that part of being a performing arts center? Diversity, access, breadth?
Sometimes, like this week, two amazing limited opportunity events pop up butt to butt: Radio and Juliet (a new ballet of Romeo and Juliet done to the music of Radiohead) and Angel Reapers, a provocative look at the sexual tension of the Shakers (you know, those folks with large communities in Albany and Western Massachusetts) as interpreted by Martha Clarke, one of the brightest minds of our time.
How do you say no even back to back? Relevant, interesting work. Too close together? Of course. Too important to pass? Of course!.......................>>>>.......................>>>>..................http://blog.timesunion.com/philipmorris/dancin/666/
Wow. Maybe if Proctors doesn't make a ton of money on shows, Morris should take a cut in his 100K+++ salary. Maybe that $9 million Metroplex kicked in for a new theater didn't really help the matter. Isn't this the same guy who received a $40K grant for 440 State and said that he didn't have enough money to "make it beautiful" - so Transfinders received a $150k for the same?
Quite frankly, Proctors pays no taxes on ticket sales, charges schools for performances and is not quite a 'poor non-profit'. Guess when election time comes, everyone is going to cry poverty just in case the bank-rolling incumbents are not elected.
Hey Mercury how's your renaissance coffeehouse doing? lol. The private sector Muddy Cup knew what they were doing when they closed shop. When you're a socialist the last concern is profitability or repaying the oppressed County taxpayers. Working together works!
If there was such a demand for the 'arts', which we are told there 'is', none of these places would be losing money or needing to be supported by the taxpayers. If the 'arts' were that popular, as we are being 'sold', they would be self sustaining.
A person needs a lot of patience and thick skin to swallow the nonsense that is being 'sold' to the taxpayers about 'the arts'....REALLY!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
If there was such a demand for the 'arts', which we are told there 'is', none of these places would be losing money or needing to be supported by the taxpayers. If the 'arts' were that popular, as we are being 'sold', they would be self sustaining.
A person needs a lot of patience and thick skin to swallow the nonsense that is being 'sold' to the taxpayers about 'the arts'....REALLY!!
This is all part of working together! Morris takes more taxpaying funding. Morris takes over Key Bank and the Muddy Cup throwing them permanently off the City tax rolls. Morris gets Patroon award from the horrible Acting Mayor! It's all good-for Morris who fled the Stockade for Rotterdam. He don't likey paying DEM record taxes.
the NAYBOOB/TEA-PARTIERS hate art ---- they think a good cultural experience is watching Sarah Palin shoot and skin a moose
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Hey Mercury how's your renaissance coffeehouse doing? lol. The private sector Muddy Cup knew what they were doing when they closed shop. When you're a socialist the last concern is profitability or repaying the oppressed County taxpayers. Working together works! 
