{"id":7437,"date":"2013-03-13T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2013-03-13T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:56:26","slug":"entertainment-news-to-chew-on-music-spending-carrie-in-los-angeles-veronica-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=7437","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment News to Chew On: Music Spending, Carrie in Los Angeles, Veronica Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staring at the collected links today while eating my salad over lunch identified two distinct themes. The first brings together a number of entertainment items of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Money for Music<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/music\/posts\/la-et-ms-sxsw-2013-fans-music-spending-habits-20130312,0,5792828.story\">Some interesting numbers out of SXSW 2013 provide a picture of entertainment spending<\/a>: Serious music fans spend over $442\/year on music. Specifically, Neilsen has identified three core consumer categories. The &#8220;aficionado&#8221; is willing to spend more than $422 per year on music, concerts and artist merch, and does so via sites such as iTunes, Amazon and indie outlets. The &#8220;digital fan&#8221; was determined to spend about $363 per year and views a smartphone or tablet as the entertainment hub. Finally, the &#8220;big box&#8221; fan shops at mass retailers, is partial to pop and country and spends, on average, $196 per year on music. Those who can be classified as music fans account for nearly 75% of all music spending in the U.S. The bad news? The most avid of fans in Nielsen&#8217;s sampling of 4,000 consumers downloaded the most tracks for free, approximately 30 in a year. What&#8217;s more, those classified as &#8220;music fans&#8221; account for just 40% of the music-buying public in America. Based on these numbers, I&#8217;m in the aficionado group &#8212; about 3-4 times per year, I&#8217;ll do a $100+ music buy &#8212; usually a mix of used CDs, new CDs, LPs, and digital music. I go to lots of concerts and musicals during the year, but don&#8217;t buy that much merch. I also listen to my music &#8212; I&#8217;ll note my Music playlist on the iPod is at 30,888 tracks, and nearly two-thirds of those tracks have been listened to at least 8 times.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blood on the Stage.<\/strong> This is some exciting news. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/175865-Cult-Musical-Carrie-Will-Get-Immersive-Los-Angeles-Production-This-Fall\">Playbill has announced that the Transfer Theatre Company will be mounting a production of the musical &#8220;<em>Carrie<\/em>&#8221; this fall<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transfergroup.org\/Pages\/TransferTheatre.aspx\">Transfer Theatre Company<\/a> is what used to be known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldstar.com\/venues\/palos-verdes-estates-ca\/neighborhood-playhouse\">Neighborhood Theatre of Palos Verdes<\/a>. In that guise, we saw truly excellent productions of &#8220;<em>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Parade<\/em>&#8221; (the latter even better than what the Mark Taper Forum did). So I&#8217;m really excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrieinla.com\/\">TTC&#8217;s production of <em>Carrie<\/em><\/a>. The original production was a notorious flop; the revival redeemed the musical&#8217;s reputation, and I can&#8217;t wait to see what TTC will do with it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Veronica Mars Lives.<\/strong> Now I&#8217;m not into TV that much, except for a few guilty pleasures (cough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallastnt.com\/\">Dallas<\/a>, cough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/survivor\/\">Survivor<\/a>, cough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/smash\/\">Smash<\/a>). But I have been having fun with Kickstarter lately, so <a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2013\/03\/13\/veronica-mars-movie-kristen-bell-kickstarter\/\">an article in EW about the brief UPN\/CW series &#8220;Veronica Mars&#8221; being revived for a movie was interesting<\/a>. Why? Because the only way it will happen is if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/559914737\/the-veronica-mars-movie-project\">a $2 million, 30-day Kickstarter succeeds<\/a>. I&#8217;ve seen Kickstarter used for lots of things &#8212; cast albums, theatre productions, and some specialized movie projects, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve seen it for a major-market product with a major studio. It is also a gigantic amount they need to raise. It will be interesting to see if they can do it. [Note: In less than a day, they&#8217;ve raised over $800,000; if this pace continues, reaching $2,000,000 is clearly possible.] [ETA: In less than 8 hours, they are up to 1.84 million. I expect them to reach their goal in under 24 hours. Amazing!] [ETAA: They made it, in less than a day. Expect to see funding efforts for movies like this again.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>The Wedding Singer <\/em>(Original Broadway Cast): &#8220;If I Told You&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staring at the collected links today while eating my salad over lunch identified two distinct themes. The first brings together a number of entertainment items of interest: Money for Music. Some interesting numbers out of SXSW 2013 provide a picture of entertainment spending: Serious music fans spend over $442\/year on music. 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