BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article
BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#1
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:13pm
"Broadway Web Sites: Now for Fans as Well as Fanatics"
by Caryn James - everyone's favorite
"Like so many presidential candidates full of unifying rhetoric, though, so far these Web sites are more about wishes than about action. Floundering to find the right form, they have settled on MySpace meets television infotainment. Among the newer sites, BroadwaySpace.com is heavy on social networking, while MyBroadway.com is loaded with videos. The established ones include the chat-infused talkinbroadway.com and the commercial-ridden BroadwayWorld.com. But on the sites, video clips are promotions disguised as interviews, chat rooms are the most fun because they are the least promotional, and the overriding purpose is to get people to the theater.
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"To get to those tidbits, though, you often have to scroll though a morass of comments that make us nonobsessives feel as if we’re eavesdropping on a cult.
“Who have you gotten stuff back from?” someone asked on BroadwayWorld.com, and received in response, “Spamalot CD insert signed by Sara Ramirez.” "
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/theater/16web.html?_r=1&ref=theater&oref=slogin
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#2
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:29pm
Hope Caryn reads this. I love this site. I love the people here. I love their passion. I love their comments. If you don't like what you read, leave.
That's the nice way to tell her what I really think, which would be closer to a rephrasing of the title "Urinetown." If you know what I mean.....
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#2
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:40pm
"the overriding purpose is to get people to the theater."
Wouldn't that kind of be the point of a Broadway website??
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#3
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:41pm
James is a hack, and most theater-people I know agree.
That article she wrote during the strike where she beat the living daylights of the 8 shows still playing was BEYOND tacky.
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#4
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:42pmI don't want to click the link. Can someone post what they said that was critical?
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#4
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:42pm
"commercial-ridden BroadwayWorld.com"
Huh? Surely they mean Broadway.com??
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#6
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:42pmThey are eavesdropping on a cult. Join us or get away is what I say.
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#7
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:43pmOops. Didn't see this thread and posted this on the OT Board.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#8
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:44pmMorosco, take a look around.
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#9
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:45pmAre you kidding, morosco? This site is moons over my spammy! I think any site that has the "You won a prize! Click here!" ads shouldn't even begin to expect to be taken seriously.
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#10
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:46pm
I DEMAND TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
...seriously.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#11
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:49pmI take you seriously, son.
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#12
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:50pmI'm being serious.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#14
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:50pmCompared with Broadway.com the ads here don't bother me at all. Broadway.com looks more like a travel agency website.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#15
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:51pmWell yeah. Have you SEEN the way we feed on people like HD? It's just part of the deal.
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#16
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:56pmWho was supposed to bring the sacrificial lamb tonight?
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#17
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:58pmI think it was theatrediva's turn. But after the Virgo mess, I think that might mean its my turn . . .
With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#19
Posted: 1/15/08 at 10:59pm"Where's the sacrificial lamb?/Here in bloody Cloisterham!"
With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-
"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#22
Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:10pm
I don't get what her point is...
Updated On: 1/15/08 at 11:10 PM
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#23
Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:57pmThis is my first post (due to long term computer issues) but I'm most surprised that the writer didn't post a better quote from here. Did she read the Fantasia threads?? Or the Clay threads?
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#24
Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:59pmCaryn James = HDThoreau2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#25
Posted: 1/16/08 at 12:00amREALLY. Got it. My b.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#26
Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:15am
"Commercial laden?"
Like the NY Times doesn't sell ads to exist????
lc
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#27
Posted: 1/16/08 at 1:21am
James is a hack, and most theater-people I know agree.
"Pot, this is kettle. You're black."
Wanting life but never knowing how
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
re: BroadwayWorld Quoted and Criticized in NY Times Article#25
Posted: 1/16/08 at 6:54am
Eh, you don't like me? Don't read me!
Updated On: 1/16/08 at 06:54 AM
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