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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Posted: 11/25/21 at 12:52pm
I am sure assistants/interns are tasked with reading various social media
