tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post576824381994944683..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Jack O'Brien Transfers Self to B'wayPlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-61967951857569288822007-12-10T23:11:00.000-05:002007-12-10T23:11:00.000-05:00Hi there, Playgoer. It’s your old San Diego friend...Hi there, Playgoer.<BR/> <BR/>It’s your old San Diego friend, Spearbearer Down Left here. <BR/> <BR/>What kind of change will this be? No change at all. O’Brien sold his San Diego home quite a while ago. Friends at the Globe tell me he hasn’t been seen much at all for over a year.<BR/> <BR/>And John, I wouldn’t worry too much about the Co-Artistic Director thing. As the <I>SD Union-Tribune</I> noted, both men report to (Executive Producer) Lou Spisto. The Globe is not like most not-for-profits which employ a Managing Director and an Artistic Director on equal footing. At the Old Globe, everyone works for Spisto - he's the head of both artistic and management. While he apparently likes to avoid the limelight, Spisto has been making the artistic decisions at the Globe for quite a while (while I'm sure O'Brien had quite a bit of input from afar). From my perspective, this announcement merely acknowledges the reality. Darko Tresnjak now has a somewhat greater institutional role alongside Patch, it would appear, but other than that, not much seems to have changed.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02162824303877729864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-3074178151198669532007-12-09T18:24:00.000-05:002007-12-09T18:24:00.000-05:00The big worry is that there will be "co-artistic d...The big worry is that there will be "co-artistic directors" at the Old Globe. Has this ever, in the history of theater, really worked? Usually means there will be a period of drift and uncertainty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-71807273056321195682007-12-09T07:37:00.000-05:002007-12-09T07:37:00.000-05:00I wouldn't lay the nonprofit-Broadway-factory lega...I wouldn't lay the nonprofit-Broadway-factory legacy entirely at Jack's door. La Jolla Playhouse macher Des McAnuff might be cited as well. Oh, and La Jolla, not Old Globe, is where "Cry-Baby" just played; "Hairspray" was at 5th Avenue in Seattle; the Old Globe's B'way mixed import history includes "Damn Yankees," the two Yazbek musicals, the Chita and Dylan thingamajigs, and yes, "Grinch."Rob Weinert-Kendthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015688507553252146noreply@blogger.com