Street tells me that he eventually wants to add concerts and events to the service, as well as launch a mobile app asap.
MySpace is apparently still counting on artists and bands to keep users happy – "A band, for instance, could use MySpace to share music with fans and get feedback, as well as adjust their touring schedule to add concerts in Texas, for example, if the musicians see their MySpace fan base is heavily from that state".
Mr. Chu said the extended cut of "Never Say Never" (which excises other footage to keep its running time at a tidy 115 minutes) will "get deeper in the Bieber subculture," further exploring the singer's relationships with his friends and entourage, as well as his father, Jeremy, and his half-siblings, while adding concert numbers like "Favorite Girl".
That idea was discarded, Mr. Wallach said, because "nobody would want to sit in a room and watch live concerts," adding, "Concerts are all about the experience of going to a show".
"When I took over 15 years ago, I realized it was more important for the culture to be the focus as opposed to the theater, so we added concerts, we added children's shows, we created English and Russian supertitles for all of our shows," Mr. Mlotek said.
The Maple Leafs sell out every home game, and with the basketball team playing out of the same arena, Peddie easily keeps the place in business 300 days a year by adding concerts and other events.
You can open the app to check out available gigs or wait for push notifications about newly added concerts or alerts about which shows friends are buying tickets to.
No musicals there, unless you add a concert performance of the Gershwins' "Strike Up the Band" in Chicago.
The New York Philharmonic will add a concert at Avery Fisher Hall on Oct. 19 to plug a hole caused by the cancellation of a visit to the Republic of Georgia.
