Is Anyone Else Fed Up with Broadway.com's Opening Night Videos?

Nowadays, all they show is red carpet interviews and opening night party interviews. Any press clips they show do not have any sound to them. I used to rely on this feature for clips, but now all I have are Word of Mouth and Broadway Beat. Is anyone else upset at this change?

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Since it's become CommercialClapTrapLovers.com, I don't really go on Broadway.com.

I just get mad when they use old rehearsal or opening night press videos as the "Watch Video".

As a potential paying customer. I don't care what Felicia P. Fields has to say about working with Lachanze. I want to see clips of her powerhouse performance. I want to see videos of SCENERY, COSTUMES, DANCING, clips with sound! (you're not alone James2)

Of course I have no idea what kind of production goes behind getting these videos up and running on sites like BWW or BW.com but it would especially be nice to see clips when they change out the leads. Example: If I'm interested in taking my niece to see Christy Carlson Romano in "Beauty and the Beast", I don't want to see a clip of Andrea McArdle from 6 years.

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I think they may not have the means of getting the rights to air song audio and performance dialogue, etc. due to union rules and such...

im just fed up with the fact that they freeze midway through, sometimes they freeze at like 6% or worst of all 97% and you don't even get to see the end, which usually ISNT the red carpet part

/rant

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That website is trashville. The fact that they pass themselves off to some degree as a Broadway news source, and then do not report a word about the ongoing strike negotiations nor about Roger Bart's back injury that took him out of a good chunk of YF's preview performances, is laughable, because of course they need to keep cheating tourists out of their vacation money and don't want customers to demand returns of their $22.00 per ticket service fees, or in YF's case, $90.00 service fees for premium tickets (which is the only reason they promote that show up the wazoo). I think I'll get my news from a non-biased source.

And speaking of show compilation videos, all you need to view is BroadwayWorld.com's beautiful video previews of every show on Broadway, without having to deal with the garbage associated with agenda pushing sites like Broadway.com.

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Updated On: 11/6/07 at 10:32 PM