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STUPID VIDEOS ECARDS SHOW POTENTIAL TO MONETIZE USER GENERATED VIDEOS....

STUPIDVIDEOS.com sent us a press release today....by Joyce Schwarz, blogging at Hollywood2020.blogs.com and so we took a look....

MERCHANDISE...key to $$$$$$

and it was fun!...Check this out-- great potential way to monetize user generated videos-- merchandising....we've said it before...and we said it recently at the LA Games Conference...MERCHANDISE THIS CONTENT...make cards out of it....make screensavers out of them....make games out of them....make trading cards....gadgets, gizmos--anything you see on eBay or Cafe Press....merchandise it. Want a hint how it's done...check out HELLO KITTY...they take original content and merchandise it to the value of $500M a year in the US alone...and everything is licensing-- everything....and if you don't sell your product in the first 30-60 days -- well...that's it ....NEXT....why is this licensing & merchandising thing so hard to get....

STUPID VIDEOS is doing it all for free...no ads...no price...but it's a start--- take a look --

SEND E CARDS with video links....

surprisingly this is the same card we just sent ourselves..but we didn't get it so some glitch in the system I guess...maybe it was the AOL address...but anyway meanwhile...check out this link in their press release....http://www.stupidvideos.com/cards/view.php?i=103.  The SV eCards service can be accessed through its new tab on the StupidVideos.com homepage.

OF COURSE I"M ASSUMING THAT STUPID VIDEOS HAS THE RIGHTS TO THESE CARDS FROM THE CREATORS...if not....back to the drawing board...or should I say the lawyer's office??? js.

UPDATE December 18, 2006 -- Hollywood2020.blogs.com heard from a rep at StupidVideos and he was far from stupid-- smart dude...who said that YES they do have all permissions...dude even said that the Hollywood2020.blogs.com post by Joyce Schwarz on merchandizing got them thinking...hmmmm well they know where to find Joyce if they want more input or assistance at [email protected] -- BLATANT SELF PROMOTION may make 2007 profitable :))) for everyone!!

CISCO -- DRIVING NEXT-GEN TV? Akimbo Investment says Cisco wants to PLAY!

CISCO WANTS TO PLAY WITH THE BIG BOYS IN THE RACE FOR NEXT-GEN TV AUDIENCES OR SHOULD WE CALL IT NETWORKED VIDEO OR ENTERTAINMENT ON DEMAND (eod) OR WHAT THIS BLOGGER has called it for years CUSTOMTAINMENT? BLOGGER NOTE -- so to be honest I finished writing this post and then I find the FORBES story from June 21 --saying CISCO HEATS UP -- and I thought I was the only one looking at what they were doing?? Well...at least it proves I'm on the right track (ROFL)Cisco Heats Up Forbes - Jun 21, 2006

LOOK AT THIS AKIMBO INVESTMENT THIS WEEK:

Akimbo Gets $15.5MRed Herring, CA - 2 hours ago
... in a third round of funding Monday from Cisco Systems, AT&T ... anime, sports, lifestyle shows, music programming, children’s entertainment, travelogues, and ...
Akimbo Closes Series C Financing, Adds Cisco and AT&T as Investors ... Business Wire (press release)

LOOKING BACK TO LOOK FORWARD: Once upon a time when I was writing TECH TV's GUIDE TO GOING WIRELESS  -- 400 pages Pearson Publishing...I went out to talk to set top box STB creators and had meetings with Scientific Atlanta and others...and I went out to see some of the planned communities where TV or Video On Demand was being built in as the buildings were being designed. One of these was Playa Vista nearby my Marina Del Rey Office. I was stunned when the CMO there said that Cisco was providing the network for the community. Cisco-- this was spring of 2001? Hmm Cisco was not exactly into entertainment then. Although they had recently sponsored NetAid in those days, they had not really ventured much into visible entertainment arena....NetAid Benefit Faces Technological Challenge- Global Policy Forum ...(this blogger was at the UN the day the event was announced and in the audience).

BUT CISCO CONSISTENTLY IS HEADING INTO ENTERTAINMENT......look at their Scientific Atlanta deal last fall see the stories below: Dissecting the Cisco/Scientific Atlanta deal Cisco's Bold New TV Bet

Cisco's Bold New TV Bet. The Scientific-Atlanta deal pushes the networking giant deeper into consumers' home and helps it court cable and telecom providers. www.businessweek.com/technology/ content/nov2005/tc20051118_915599.htm - 62k - Cached -

Cisco readies consumer electronics strategy | CNET News.com

Cisco readies consumer electronics strategy | Cisco's Linksys to unveil new business unit geared toward home entertainment early next month.Cisco 'Homes' in on Entertainment A $61M acquisition will help the vendor's Linksys division tie video and audio devices into the network. AND MOVIEBEAM The Walt Disney Company, Cisco Systems and Intel Corporation ...  The Walt Disney Company, Cisco Systems and Intel Corporation Invest in MovieBeam, Inc. New Digital Entertainment Venture Launches with $48.5 Million in ... www.intel.com/pressroom/ archive/releases/20060214corp.htm - 29k - Cached AND KISS --networked entertainment devices: PLUS $61 million for Kiss last fall-- Cisco is betting KiSS' networked entertainment device portfolio, which includes home video products such as networked DVD players and recorders, will compliment Linksys' Voice over Internet Protocol wireless and networking hardware for the home. www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3522411 - 58k - Cached - Similar pages EVEN "POWERING" Sponsoring ENTERTAINMENT NEWS ONLINE.. ...Entertainment, arts, film, TV and radio news from The Times and ... Cached - Similar pagesCached Entertainment, arts, film, TV and radio news from The Times and Sunday Times. ... for the latest entertainment news powered by Cisco Systems ... entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ - AND THE MTV STREAMING NETWORK DEAL --- MTV, Cisco Launch Streaming Network Entertainment Movies Games Cisco Empowers Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment Web Initiatives VOD & IPv6: Cisco Unveils IPv6 Solution for IOS Software "By building IPv6 into Cisco IOS software, we are enabling continued growth ... IPv6 has already caught the attention of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., ... www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/765031 - 63k - Cisco on Demand [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] May 10, 2006 Cisco has wisely made sure it has a finger in the VOD pie way before it's fully baked. Not only that, but the in-home entertainment market fits in well with ... www.fool.com/News/mft/2006/mft06051022.htm - 31k -

With the purchase of Scientific Atlanta, Cisco now owns 40% of the market for ... This means Cisco, if it successfully integrates Scientific Atlanta, ... www.networkworld.com/weblogs/wan/010412.html - 58k - Jun 24, 2006 - Cached - AND LINKSYS

SINBAD,THE COMEDIAN, VIRAL VIDEO ON WHY "THE iPOD's SAVING AMERICA" Promo for MacGathering(TM)

SINBAD ON WHY "THE iPOD IS SAVING AMERICA" ....MacGathering™ -- Sinbad animated ...don't miss this viral video created in 2D character animation done in flash by Michael Browne. Awesome words of wisdom from Sinbad "the Geek" excerpted from the keynote he gave at the MacGathering(TM) 2005! This blogger Joyce Schwarz, JCOM, emerging entertainment analyst was at the MacGathering keynote last year and Sinbad was totally awesome. Brilliant, spot-on and a techno-wizard who really understands the AUDIENCE RULES!

About this amazing video from Deb Shadovitz, (www.debshadovitz.net): "Sinbad was animated by the brilliant Mike Browne creator of Dinky TV, the brain behind BigRedShoes.com.(Deb notes: If you're looking for someone to animate a character for you, Mike's your man.) Sinbad's words are from his 2005 Keynote, presented at the last MacGathering."

Animation ©2006 Mike Browne;

Words ©2005 Sinbad; All rights reserved

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Don't miss any part of this great viral video which is now posted on the www.macgathering.com website. And hope you caught the MacGathering(TM) 2006 events in N. Hollywood this weekend.

SINBAD AT DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD!

Here's a link to news coverage of the panel that Sinbad did at Digital Hollywood that I moderated last year -- thanks to Deb for introducing me to this brilliant comedian/producer,guru!. Lights... Camera... It's Digital Hollywood! How The Techies are ... And thanks to Sinbad for all of the laughter and joy he brings to the world -- a light touch in a high tech world!.

Earthlink Founder Sky Dayton Launches Wireless Helio For 'My Space Generation'

WIRELESS FOR THE 'MY SPACE GENERATION' -- waiting here to watch Sky Dayton (founder of Earthlink(www.earthlink.net) and Boingo Wireless(www.boingo.com -- Wi-Fi) on CNBC to talk about his newest launch Helio -- what his firm is calling 'wireless for the My Space generation'. By Joyce Schwarz, Hollywood2020 blog & emerging entertainment analyst, www.joycecom.com.

www.helio.com -- check it out --new wireless MVNO for 'My Space generation'

As I wait for Sky Dayton's appearance on CNBC Squack Box show, the one big question I would love to text to him (if we had Text enabled CNBC) is "Why didn't My Space do this?" ...do you think that Rupert Murdock is jealous? Or is Murdock just waiting to see how Sky's new firm Helio does -- and then buy it out too...remember MySpace sold to Murdock for about a $1/2 billion or so.

WHAT'S HELIO? Device or service -- both is the answer  Go to www.helio.com and you'll see two different devices both at retail of $250. Supposedly, Sky Dayton and his wife were in Korea and they saw the advanced 3G devices that the Koreans were using -- and they were jealous. Sky who according to Internet lore (or did he actually tell me once) he started his career running a coffee shop in West Hollywood at some insane young age of 21 or so. Why was he in Korea? His Boingo Wi-Fi firm has deals for hotspots throughout Korea as I remember. So he decided to gather an experienced team together that includes backgrounds with DANGER (teen-device creator of the product better known to consumers as Sidekick rolled out by T-Mobile) and of course execs from SK Mobile, Motorola, Overture and more. Here's what Wired.com had to say about Helio team and Sky's philosophy earlier this year: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/helio.html. And it appears they are all in the Helio 'House' in Westwood (near UCLA) --note it's a house like the MTV House-- not a building or an office-- Sky is 'ever-kewl'...he was MySpace generation before MySpace!

CNBC REPORT ON HELIO -- looks like a phone but does everything except cook dinner-- the equivalent of a Swiss Army knife 

Here's my take on a 'live transcript' of the Sky Dayton interview on CNBC -- did my best and probably got about 80 percent of it....no doubt other media reports will follow !Segment over at 5:55 a.m. -- so 6 minute segment-- not bad for CNBC. They had Sky sitting at the Squack Box table - -not just an interview via phone --very effective new product intro.

(Note I've put Sky's responses in bold -- questions from the Squack Box team in regular text...have some fun reading it-- Hollywood2020 may be the first to run the story on CNBC!! js)

5:49 a.m.PST --CNBC  Squack Box (partial transcript) -- part mobile phone, part game player, it's got everything-- just about --inside this thing. FIRST ON CNBC -- HELIO IS HERE -- joint venture between Earthlink and SK Telecom. (The Squack Box team is sitting on the set now playing with Helio devices. )Looks like a phone but lot going on here. Squack Box team shown holding up Helio and it is "playing MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" trailer -- they are holding it up -- saying WOW --someone actually says they are "having a good time just getting it open". So Sky what is it? Explain this device to us. We created a new mobile service for young mobile consumers whose lives evolve around mobile space. What is the coolest thing this device can do? Full access to MySpace -- exclusive to Helio -- can be on MySpace 24/7 -- can blog live -- Is this what 18-34 year olds are looking for....yes, they don't want their father's cell phone. I buy into this -- I'm in this demo barely. Fee starts at $85 month -- Sky says 1 out of every $10 is being spent by young consumers on wireless . This is like clothes or a purse or a car-- sit down at table in cafe. "It says who you are" Sky Dayton -- He's getting kidded now by the Squack team...who's coming after you --bigger, faster-- Sky avoids question -- SK Telecom -- 2-3 years ahead of US -- buddy list, sending video to friends. Can send video message to 5 of your friends simultaneously -- up to 10 minutes...don't they have homework...are you competing with iPod with this? We wanted to create a service that was all about communication. Can gift or beg games-- can also make phone calls...built-in MP3 player MPEG4 player-- full stereo speakers...who makes the components inside these machines? Qualcomm --it's 3G tech, Pantech and VK out of Korea . Bringing something unique to the US market. Available now on the website and in 1000 retail locations by end of the year. Today is our launch date --go to Helio.com to buy. Spoiled rich kids everywhere will want to buy it. Let's go from GENEX forum that this is ---to Mark.....(and we're out of the segment with Sky Dayton smiling!) Here's the link to VK (formerly Viable Korea) and their new slim device. Pantech appears to be providing the 2 megapixel camera....The Korea Times : Korea＊s VK Unveils 8.8mm Slim Mobile

YAHOO INTERNATIONAL REMIXER :NEXT GEN MASH-UP TOOL FOR "YOU-MEDIA"

YAHOO RESEARCH BERKELEY ROLLS out it's newest 'you media' tech --The International Remixer" at the SF Intl Film festival(SFIFF) Too discover the fun of the new system go to  www.sffs.org. Even though the festival's over and the winners have been announced in the remix event, you can still mash-up the festival films with accompanying music provided by the site.

A citizen media project encouraged would-be filmmakers to use the Yahoo International Remixer to mash-up, slice & dice and score their own mini-films which are not only being shown on the site after the festival but were actually screened during the festival at a special event and awards were handed out for these mix-ups.

Kinotek --SF Intl Film Festival New Media

According to the SF CHRONICLE, features new to the SF Intl. festival this year included what the festival organizers are calling "KinoTek" --experiments with electronic video and real-time digital images, KinoTek was interpreted at the festival with five programs represented by  Addictive TV, Cock Byte, Masters of Machinima, Pocket Cinema and of course Internatonal Remix. In the CHRONICLE report, Grehan Leggat, San Francisco Film Society's executive director says "Just the thought that you can be on a bus today watching a film on your cell phone or other small device and the person next to you can see it over your shoulder -- that's pretty wild" . Leggat considers it the responsibility of the festival to explore those new technologies. In the SAN JOSE MERCURY coverage Leggat underscores his interest in new media and delivery systems by saying, " ``No longer can we think of movie-going and the social environment that goes with that as just one thing.''

MORE INFO ON YAHOO'S INTERNATIONAL REMIXER:

Yahoo Research Whips Up Video Remixer

The tool created by Yahoo Research Berkeley for International Remix on the San Francisco International Film Festival website gives visitors a way to r. www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/ wpn-60-20060421YahooResearchWhipsUpVideoRemixer.html - 36k - Cached

International Remixer 

... requires the Macromedia Flash Player. Get Flash. INTERNATIONAL REMIXHOME | GALLERY | INFO | REMIXER | FEEDBACK. @ 2006 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. ingi1.sfsu.edu/remix/Remixer.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pages

MOD Films - remixable films and tools for film reuse  (Hollywood2020 note check these guys out -- they are one of the partners for the launch of the International Remixer.

International Remix, SF International Film Festival. International Remix, San Francisco Film Festival Monday April 24 10pm Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary Street ... modfilms.com/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages Yahoo! Search blog International Remix enables you to create your very own movie mashups. ... We've had fun flexing our media hacking muscles to build this research prototype ... www.ysearchblog.com/ - 32k - Best blog post about the INTERNATIONAL REMIXER -- Lifehacker - Friday Fun International Remix enables you to create your very own movie mashups. Go crazy with creativity ... You can hack your iPod to play Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. ... www.lifehacker.com/software/friday-fun/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pagesunmediated ... and I’m happy to report that the team of media hackers I work with at Yahoo! ... That contribution is International Remix, a web-based tool for ... www.unmediated.org/ - 127k - Cached - Similar pages Cached - Similar pages

NATPE FEATURES MOBILE TV -- TV2GO -- Blogger Joyce Schwarz Predictions from 2003

PREDICTING MOBILE TV THREE YEARS AGO WAS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE -- BUT now in 2006 as we head for NATPE (National Assn. Television Program Executives) in Las Vegas, we find that not only did Hollywood2020 blogger, columnist, analyst and author Joyce Schwarz' predictions come true...but mobile television is now getting it's own day at NATPE and is the subject of some the hottest seminars during the Tuesday- Thursday workshops. Go to www.napte.org for more details on the conference or watch this blog for updates.

Blogger Joyce Schwarz wrote one of the first articles on TV2GO for TELEVISION WEEK BACK on April 14, 2003.She is also the author of "CUTTING THE CORD: GUIDE TO GOING WIRELESS" Macmillan Publishing and more than 250 other articles on emerging entertainment. She is a regular contributor to imediaconnection.com and their resident wireless expert. 

Mobile TV is the topic in some of the hottest seminars and workshops at NATPE but also is the topic of the NATPE Mobile on Monday, January 23. 

Speakers include Bruce Gersh, the senior VP of business development at ABC Entertainment; Suranga Chandratillake, the co-founder of Blinkx; Stephen Nuttall, the director of business development at BSkyB; Dan Cohen, the senior VP and general manager of pay-TV at Buena Vista Television; Keith Hindle, the VP of integrated marketing and interactive for the Americas at FremantleMedia; Stephen Davis, the president of mobile media at Infospace and the co-chairman of NATPE; Salil Dalvi, the VP of wireless platforms at NBC Mobile; and Lucy Hood, the senior VP of content and marketing at News Corp. and president of Fox Mobile Entertainment. (see full article below)

or to register and check out all the details go to: www.ihollywoodforum.com/natpemobile

Lineup Announced for NATPE Mobile ++ World Screen News, NY - Jan 18, 2006... at FremantleMedia; Stephen Davis, the president of mobile media at Infospace and the co-chairman of NATPE; Salil Dalvi, the VP of wireless platforms at NBC ...

INTERACTIVE TV UPDATES: AROUND THE WORLD ITV GETS MORE TUNE INS

ITV (Interactive TV) is getting more tune-ins around the world. Blogger Joyce Schwarz was honored to attend the www.itvalliance.org Tech Walk & conference this week at the Chateau Marmont (yes that Chateau Marmont -- the famous one) in West Hollywood last week...meanwhile we checked out what was happening in ITV around the world. Stay tuned for more info on the Tech Walk.....

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BT plans major iTV push (courtesy advanced-television.com) BT is planning to put iTV advertising at the heart of its IPTV proposition with the launch of advanced red-button services. It is planning to let advertisers promote their products via highly targeted commercials around the on-demand film, music and TV content that BT plans to deliver to viewers in addition to the 32 Freeview channels. "I'd be disappointed if our TV-over-broadband service didn't significantly push forward the iTV ad market in the next 18 months," Andrew Burke, CEO of BT Entertainment told NMA. He says the service will provide brand owners with a range of functions not currently available on Sky. New formats include a click-to-call function that allows viewers to press red to be directly connected to an advertiser via the phonemore

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HBO on Cingular

Cingular Wireless will bring clips of popular HBO shows, including the Sopranos, to its mobile phones following an exclusive three-year pact with HBO parent Time Warner. Cingular, a JV of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth says "Now you can turn a boring everyday moment into an opportunity to escape," Cingular's Chief Operating Officer Ralph de la Vega saidmore

OPRAH'S FAVORITE ELECTRONIC THINGS

HIGH TECH THINGS WERE HIGH ON OPRAH'S LIST FOR HER FAVORITE THINGS 2005  which range in price from $25 to $1600--that's all of her things (not the electronics which are probably in the mid range).

Check www.oprah.com for details.

VIDEO IPOD:With of course very near the top of the list the VIDEO iPOD: Apple iPod,Suggested retail price: $299 --800-MY-APPLE (800-692-7753)Apple.com

BLACKBERRY: BlackBerry 7105t™ from T-Mobile,Suggested retail price: $299,(800) TMOBILE (866-2453).www.t-mobile.com/blackberry

OPRAH DVDS:The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th,Anniversary Collection DVD Collection,
Suggested retail price: $34.95,Oprah.com/dvd

Sony VAIO FJ Notebook Suggested retail price: $1499.99 ($1599.99 in a variety of colors)(877) 865-SONY (865-7669)SonyStyle.com

Other lower tech goodies ranged from Chocolate croissants (or you can get them plain), HOPE IN A JAR by a company called PHILOSOPHY -- Cashmere sweater from Ralph Lauren -- now named for Oprah and much more. Check them out at www.oprah.com.

MP3 PLAYERS HOTTEST XMAS GIFT FOR 2005

All I want for Christmas is my MP3 player -- says millions of lists to Santa Clause for 2005 according to a recent Consumer Electronics Association. "Peace, happiness, health—and consumer electronics—are on the wish lists of Americans this holiday season" said CEA Director of Industry Analysis Sean Wargo, in a statement. "Despite concern about the overall economy, consumers intend to purchase, as well as hope to receive, a plethora of consumer electronics gifts this holiday season. be humming a happy tune entering the New Year, as results show the MP3 player is going to be one of the hottest sellers."

HOUSEHOLD SPENDING UP TO $1430:

Overall spending is forecast to increase 14% per household, from $1,254 to $1,430, over last year, factoring in gifts, decorations, food, travel and other assorted holiday expenses, according to the Consumer Electronics Association's 12th Annual Holiday Sales and Forecast survey

Other items on consumers' wish lists included (in order of preference): plasma television, digital camera, laptop PC, big screen TV, desktop PC, video game system, high-definition television, DVD recorder and home theater speakers or system. The gift-giving list included: portable MP3 player, digital camera, video game system, cordless phone, home DVD player, portable headset CD, game peripherals, DVD recorder, cell phone and laptop PC.

CEA is the trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry through technology policy, events, research, promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. The association represents more than 2,000 corporate members.

WOMAN IN WHITE ANDREW LOYD WEBBER IN 3D SETS

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S "WOMAN IN WHITE" may just have the most impressive 'virtual' sets in the world. This blogger Joyce Schwarz, author and emerging media consultant was stunned to see the amazing backdrops at a Broadway preview of the play.

WOMAN IN WHITE POSTER can't even hint at the amazingly modern 3D sets the show features on Broadway.

NEW YORK TIMES  SAYS 1ST PLAY WHERE COMPUTER ANIMATED IMAGES DOMINATE STAGE... According to the NEW YORK TIMES reports, "It is the first Broadway show in which computer-animated images completely dominate the stage. Projections appear on six, 16½-foot-tall curved gray screens that move around the edge of the stage in a circle. Think of the computer animation in a Pixar movie like "Toy Story," with a more realistic, less cartoonish look. The setting can change instantly: as two characters tour an estate, the actors stay put as the background dissolves from one room to another. Or, the animation can take the audience through a three-dimensional environment, over fields, houses, churches and graveyards."

THE NEW YORK TIMES quotes: "I want the theater to have some of the visual scope and sense of movement that cinema has," said William Dudley, the show's set and video designer, and the creator of the novel animation effects. "Directors often talk about breaking through the fourth wall. I want to break through the second wall, the back wall."

BEYOND PHYSICAL SETS...

For "Woman in White," adapted from Wilkie Collins's 1860 novel, Lord Lloyd Webber wanted so many locations, Sir Trevor (his famous director) said, that elaborate physical sets would not work. Webber saw Mr. Dudley's animations for Tom Stoppard's 2002 play "The Coast of Utopia" at the National Theater, directed by Sir Trevor, and he was hooked.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT THE SETS: Matt Wolf wrote in Variety that the projection "seems, thank heavens, to have simmered down." Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph "What's required, surely, is an authentically Victorian atmosphere, not something that looks like an out-of-focus video game."

Dudley reportedly got the idea for 3D animations watching his son play a video game. He also thinks that video-game-style animation might attract young people to the theater.

MODERN ZOETROPE:

Dudley is said to have been inspired by a Victorian Zoetrope parlor toy that whirls to create the impression of a moving picture --you've probably seen them in museums or old arcades-- a figure looks like he is boxing or a girl is dancing. It's a bit like a top spinning.

The scenes have been compared to a Merchant and Ivory look. Many of the audience members that this blogger Joyce Schwarz, emerging media consultant talked with at intermission were not impressed. Plus many feel the musical itself is a real "downer" because it is a bit ghoulish. The sets are spectacular-- too much spectacle though that may overpower the story, let's see what the people have to say. Here are some links to other views on this attempt to break the second wall.Woman in White | The Musical, The Woman In White @ Palace Theatre, London The Woman In White @ Palace Theatre, London

He is aided by a visionary set design by William Dudley, which employs huge video walls that engulf the set. Apparently 7 kilometres of video cables are ... www.musicomh.com/theatre/woman-in-white.htm - 20k - Cached The Woman in White The new bit is in director Trevor Nunn's use of vast, Cinerama-style video screens to provide sets and backdrops from mansion houses to grand staircases, ... www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/ review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000652965 - 45k - Nov 15, 2005 - Cached