{"id":663,"date":"2021-02-25T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/panto-hits-las-vegas-how-livestreaming-is-transforming-the-stage\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:05:30","slug":"panto-hits-las-vegas-how-livestreaming-is-transforming-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/panto-hits-las-vegas-how-livestreaming-is-transforming-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Panto hits Las Vegas! How livestreaming is transforming the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was meant to provide theatres with a lifeline during Covid. But livestreaming is now giving them extraordinary reach. Can it be sustained \u2013 and could it turn out to be a new existential threat?<\/p>\n

As Christmas season dawned at the end of last year, two American critics had a crash course in that most British of theatre traditions, pantomime, dropping in remotely to eight shows for the New York Times. \u201cI felt like an ethnographer studying a foreign culture\u2019s strange ceremonies,\u201d wrote one<\/a>, while the other enjoyed the peppering of Covid-related jokes, including the insertion of \u201cfiiiiiive toilet rolls\u201d into The 12 Days of Christmas.<\/p>\n

The song featured in Oh Yes We Are!<\/a>, Perth theatre\u2019s four-scene mini-panto intended for small groups in a promenade performance, after the first lockdown made its Cinderella, on a conventional stage, impossible. But just as rehearsals were due to begin, new restrictions forced it online. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was meant to provide theatres with a lifeline during Covid. But livestreaming is now giving them extraordinary reach. Can it be sustained \u2013 and could it turn out to be a new existential threat?
\nAs Christmas season dawned at the end of last year, two American critics had a crash course in that most British of theatre traditions, pantomime, dropping in remotely to eight shows for the New York Times. \u201cI felt like an ethnographer studying a foreign culture\u2019s strange ceremonies,\u201d wrote one, while the other enjoyed the peppering of Covid-related jokes, including the insertion of \u201cfiiiiiive toilet rolls\u201d into The 12 Days of Christmas.
\nThe song featured in Oh Yes We Are!, Perth theatre\u2019s four-scene mini-panto intended for small groups in a promenade performance, after the first lockdown made its Cinderella, on a conventional stage, impossible. But just as rehearsals were due to begin, new restrictions forced it online. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was meant to provide theatres with a lifeline during Covid. But livestreaming is now giving them extraordinary reach. Can it be sustained \u2013 and could it turn out to be a new existential threat? As Christmas season dawned at the end of last year, two American critics had a crash course in that most …<\/p>\n

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