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...leaving Monday's meeting with the Prime Minister, one MP lamented missing "10 minutes of Coronation Street". Just like the popular British soap opera, the saga over Brown's future looks set to run and run. - With reporting by Catherine Mayer / London...
...paid a visit to another museum a few weeks ago, people took note. On May 18, the First Lady traveled to New York City to inaugurate the newly refurbished American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later she moved on to the city's other Met--the Metropolitan Opera House--to celebrate the opening night of the American Ballet Theatre and speak to the glamorously packed house about the importance of the arts to "our future as an innovative country...
...world of performing arts, the news has been just as bleak. All around the country, orchestras, opera houses, theater troupes and dance companies are cutting salaries, jobs and programs. A few have simply collapsed. The Hartford-based Connecticut Opera closed this year after 67 seasons. So did the 58-year-old Baltimore Opera Company. "Most organizations have been hurt," says Robert Lynch, president of the advocacy group Americans for the Arts. "But arts organizations aren't driven by profit. They're driven by mission. And they'll do anything to survive...
...consulting service for arts groups on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Kaiser is something of a rescue artist. Over the years, he has swooped in as a director to save the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City, the Kansas City Ballet and London's Royal Opera House, which had just canceled every performance for the next year and a half when he got there in 1988. In February the Kennedy Center launched a website--artsincrisis.org--where beleaguered administrators could go for advice on fundraising, programming, budgeting and marketing. Kaiser and his staff sometimes pay house calls...
...everybody know you're there. "Organizations that are cutting performances and marketing are going to be the losers," he warns. He also cautions them against reaching for the most familiar programming--Beethoven's Fifth! The Nutcracker! Grease!--in the hope of drawing guaranteed crowds. "I talked to an opera company recently that has done some adventurous programming," he says. "But this season they were just doing things like La Bohème. It wasn't selling at all, and I'm not surprised. People have seen lots of La Bohème. They don't need to see another...