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Gillian Anderson onscreen soon in ‘Streetcar’ Associated Press
NEW YORK — If you can’t get to London in time to catch Gillian Anderson spinning onstage in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” her orbit is about to get larger. Starting Tuesday, Fathom Events, National Theatre Live and BY Experience will broadcast to movie theaters worldwide the fresh, critically cheered take on Tennessee Williams’ classic tale from London’s Young Vic Theatre. The production, directed by Benedict Andrews, is set in present day New Orleans on a stage that revolves constantly, offering viewers both the shifting perspective of the characters and their slow turns into madness. Anderson, who plays Williams’ legendary desperate Southern belle Blanche DuBois, is joined by Ben Foster as Stanley, her lower-class nemesis, and Vanessa Kirby as his suffering wife. The spinning stage might sound like a recipe for motion sickness, but Anderson said most theatergoers get used to it. “A good deal of people who see it say
the revolve disappears for them and, if they notice it, it’s to notice the benefits of it and the benefits of the perspective that it gives,” said Anderson by phone from London. “Every once in a while, somebody will see it and just not be able to see beyond the fact that it’s revolving and it becomes an albatross around the neck of their experience. But that’s the minority.” Anderson, the 46-year-old former co-star of “The X-Files,” said that she has long wanted to tackle the doomed Blanche onstage and compares it to riding a stallion every night that she cannot
ever tame. “It’s a behemoth,” she said. “It sits on your shoulders like a bad dream, but if you can ride through the punctuation and the energy and the stamina and the beats, it is heaven, absolute heaven.” The production opened at the Young Vic on July 28 and the Sept. 16 show will be captured live and broadcast to about 1,500 venues in 40 different countries over the following hours and days, with some encore screenings expected. Anderson, who hopes to take the production to Broadway one day, said there might be added pressure of having cameras capture her show, but there’s not much she and her fellow actors can do about it. “We’re already live and exposed and the most that we can hope is that on that particular night that it’s captured that we do one of our better performances,” she said. “That’s not necessarily in our hands. We’ll show up and do the best that we can do.”
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Room occupancy of star-hotels slumps
Vanessa Hudgens coming to Broadway as ‘Gigi’ Associated Press
NEW YORK — It’s taken a few years, but Vanessa Hudgens has finally made the leap from “High School Musical” to a Broadway musical. The actresssinger will star in a Broadway-bound revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe’s musical “Gigi” that first debuts in Washington, D.C. early next year. She’s already jumped into twice-a-day vocal exercises and memorizing her lines. “I think, as an actor, the ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. I think it’s the true test. There are no second takes. You’ve got to bring everything you’ve got
for the most critical of audiences,” she said by phone Wednesday. “It’s an honor, if anything. I’m over the moon.” “Gigi,” set in Paris at the turn of the last century, comes from the same composer and lyricist as “My Fair Lady.” It centers on a teenage girl being groomed to serve as a companion to a bored, wealthy playboy until the pair realize they have fallen in love. Hudgens was familiar with the show and some of the music. “My mom’s name is Gina, her nickname’s been Gigi. We have a dog named Gigi. Gigi is very prevalent in our lives,” she says, laughing. The original novel by Colette began as
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a play starring Audrey Hepburn in 1951 and then became a movie musical starring Leslie Caron. A stage musical was made in 1973 starring Karin Wolfe but lasted only about 100 performances. “Gigi” features the memorable tunes “Thank Heaven For Little Girls,” ‘’I Remember It Well” and “The Night They Invented Champagne,” which Hudgens called “an absolutely electric musical number.” The score also includes a few songs added to the score in 1973, including “Paris is Paris Again” and “I Never Want to Go Home Again.” Hudgens, 25, who made her feature film debut in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen,” is best known for playing Gabriella, the love interest of Zac Efron’s Troy, in Disney’s “High School Musical” movies. Recent screen credits include “Bandslam” and “Spring Breakers.” Hudgens has put out two albums, including 2008’s “Identified.” She grew up doing musical theater and says that’s “what brought me out of my shell. So being onstage is something I feel very comforting.” She starred as Mimi in “Rent” at the Hollywood Bowl in 2010. Playwright Heidi Thomas, who wrote the PBS/BBC hit “Call the Midwife,” is reimagining the new production of “Gigi.” Her TV credits include a “Madame Bovary” that starred Frances O’Connor and a revival of the classic British TV series “Upstairs, Downstairs” from 2010 to 2012. Her plays include “Shamrocks and Crocodiles,” “Some Singing Blood” and “The House of Special Purpose.”
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A hotel project at Batu Belig, Bali Island, shown in this photo. Rampant construction of budget hotels in the Bali region was the cause of the decline in hotel room occupancy rate.
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DENPASAR - Many tourist arrivals to Bali do not necessarily have an impact on the hotel room occupancy rate in Bali. Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted that the number of foreign tourist visiting Bali reached 361,066 tourists (July 2014), while the occupancy rate of hotels fell 1.04 points to 61.4 percent compared to the same period last year reaching 62.44 percent. A tourism businessman of Bali, Ketut Ardana, judged the rampant construction of budget hotels in the Bali region was the cause of the decline in hotel room occupancy rate. “The decline can have been predicted previously. As the main cause, he explained,
is the widespread permits issued without paying attention to capacity,” revealed Ardana in Denpasar, Tuesday (Sep 2). He said the construction of star hotels in Badung and Denpasar was quite disturbing the occupancy rate because the growth in accommoda-
tion and tourist arrival showed an inequality. “As a result, hotels sold their rooms at low prices to fill in the occupancy rate. This must be anticipated so that Bali tourism does not become a cheap tourism,” he said. This Chairman of the Association of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) of Bali Chapter hoped that local government could tighten the permit and should dare to restrain the rate of growth and not merely think of the regionally generated revenue (PAD). Meanwhile, the Head of BPS Bali, Panusunan Siregar, asserted that such conditions could not reflect if the quality of travelers com-
ing to Bali dropped, but it happened because they had many options of accommodation to choose from. “We cannot detect the matter of quality. Probably, they have already known about the facilities available here. They are still staying for longer time, but just looking for a cheaper room rate,” he explained. He added the construction of star hotels in Badung and Denpasar had disrupted the occupancy rate. As a result, hotels then sold their room at low prices to meet the occupancy rate. Even, he suspected that Bali tourism tended to move towards cheaper tourism. The decline in occupancy rate was inversely pro-
portional to the average length of stay in star hotels with the increase of 0.28 days to 3.47 days from 3.19 days in the same period earlier. “I think many tourists choose to stay at cheaper hotel rather than staying at star hotels. By doing so, they can stay longer in Bali,” he said. According to him, the decline in hotel occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali will have a positive impact on small hotels and non-star hotels owned by local business people. “These conditions will equalize the distribution of the Bali tourism pie, so that it is not only enjoyed by entrepreneurs with large capitals,” he said. (kmb27)