Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
#1Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 7:30am
I know I've seen many people claiming that Broadway creatives frequently read posts/comments here on the board. Are there any examples where shows have implemented changes as a direct result of something that was said here? Was there proof that it couldn't have been a coincidence?
ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#2Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 8:40am
Producers certainly read. Some creatives read, but it's more to get a general consensus of what frequent theatergoers are thinking of the show. Similar to reading Twitter comments. Anecdotally, the boards are the only thing that brings most people to BWW.
#3Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 9:44am
Gregg Barnes said he read all the comments relating to Follies online, especially relating to Bernadette’s red dress (a request from Bernadette herself). After the backlash they replaced the dress (I remember being in the first public audience to see this and gasped when Bernadette came out in the new dress - what a time to be alive). The new dress was well received.
Gregg went on to win a well deserved Tony for those lavish costumes. Did broadwayworld help? Maybe.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#4Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 9:57am
Song of Spiderman goes into detail about how producers of Turn Off The Dark were obsessed with the BWW boards, and how they prompted some of the conversations about what to cut from the 1.0 version.
Tag
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#5Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 10:55am
I'm sure back in the day when Marc Shaiman posted here, he took something away from it.
And not creative team, but we know Patti Murin reads the boards.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#6Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 11:28am
Again, not a creative team member, but Adam Pascal has ranted about a particular thread about him on this site back when he was in CHICAGO.
adotburr
Broadway Star Joined: 10/6/21
#7Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 12:34pm
Jesse Tyler Ferguson does as he read a few comments from the Wicked cast news thread (he read mine). And Patti Murin commented on his video so she probably lurks too.
And Lin Manuel Miranda was just commenting on the Tick, Tick... Boom! thread a few days ago.
she/her . “everything’s legal in new jersey”
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#8Do Broadway creative teams read the posts here?
Posted: 11/25/21 at 12:52pm
I am sure assistants/interns are tasked with reading various social media
