August 31, 2008

After the Curtain Falls, the Web Gets Into the Act

Theater is the ephemeral art -- except, that is, when it's bootlegged on YouTube. The Washington Post reports.

You can't actually watch Broadway's "Jersey Boys" online, and you can't balm the sorrow of missing out on "The Lion King" by downloading its majestic parades and anthems. Theater isn't the movies, and digital piracy isn't the kind of billion-dollar threat that has plagued Hollywood for years.

Still, Broadway is hardly turning a blind eye to what is being dubbed, for contract purposes, "new media."

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