A video diary is a great way to show the personalities of the dancers and give users that golden ‘backstage pass’ to see the lives of dancers. We sent them 6 flip cams while they were working on the pre-Broadway engagement in Perth. The footage they came up with was amazing! Over 5 hours of footage of dancing, talking, laughing, playing their ritual hacky sack, making fun of each other. After much editing we launched with a pretty nice starter to the series.

Nielsen released some news that video usage is up by 53% since last year. Another impressive fact is that the number of people watching video via cell phones is up by 52 percent!

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I’m with Hillary on this, “I can’t wait to have this in my house! I CAN’T WAIT!”

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(Hey, the critics aren’t the only ones who are loving on ROA right now. Check out the fan testimonials that we taped after a recent performance.)

Night Ranger (yes, THE Night Ranger!) played a smokin’ all-acoustic set, Survivor’s Jim Peterik gave a the whole crowd a Rocky (III) moment when he had us belting out Eye of the Tiger, and the girls swooned en masse when Constantine and his band took the stage.

It was, to date, the best opening night party anyone at AMC has ever attended. And the stupendous reaction from the critics was the chocolate on the cherry on the top!

It’s the only place where you can legally get free videos of your favorite episodes of SNL and Family Guy. Seriously, I’ve watched more Kristen Wiig videos on Hulu than I have seen Kittens Inspired by Kittens on YouTube.

Google recognizes the awesomeness of Hulu.com (much like Facebook recognizes the awesomeness of Twitter) and will do many of the same things that Hulu already does, like feature premium content, but most especially, will feature in-stream, interruptive ads. (Funny or Die already does this.)

I am not sure if they can target the videos, but, you bet your sweet charity that I will be getting the in-stream ads for Jennifer Holliday AND Jennifer Hudson’s And I Am Telling You video.

We’ll see this new launch April 16, the delay due to on-going negotiations with Disney.

Obviously this begs the question about questionable behavior during live performances, doesn’t it? That “no photography of any kind” rule includes “no recording devices,” so unless the person who captured this is exceptionally quick to recognize a newsworthy moment, he or she was flouting the very same rules as the snapper. Both are wrong, true, and listening in like this  does make us culpable in the act,  but it’s still pretty fun to hear La Lupone going off on this lout, isn’t it?

Here’s the interesting thing: Take a look at some of the comments from this blog post about the incident on the Gay TV blog.

First of all, wow, these are some vituperative people, some of whom clearly have no understanding of what they were even listening to, but sure are ready to sling some serious smack about a famous person.

Second, boy, do theatre folk get sanctimonious, particularly about their sacred cows (no insult to the lady in question intended).

Third, I just don’t understand the urge to snap photos–or make recordings–of entertainment events. For what? Was that guy going to try to sell crappy cell phone pictures of Lupone on Ebay?  Was the recorder planning to make a cd of the show? (Before he realized he could post the show-stopping episode on Youtube, naturally.) Is there really a market for this kind of thing, or are they planning to gaze/listen to their blurry/mostly inaudible contraband in the privacy of their lonely rooms? Whichever, it’s just kind of sad.

Fourth, full disclosure, I detest people who do stuff like this and have been known to personally, publicly and not-very-nicely request them to desist, so I’m pretty much on Patty’s page here (ha).