Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
nydirector2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/4/05
#1Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 5/29/11 at 11:46pm
Does anyone remember talking in these rooms about 10-15 years ago. I used to love spending my high school nights avoiding doing homework and bitching and complaining about Broadway and now I would love to see where anyone and everyone has ended up.
My screen name was SimonMcFly and was from Alabama, then lived in New York for tyears before moving back to Alabama. ANyone else remember me?
#2Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 5/29/11 at 11:50pm
Oh. My. God.
I totally forgot about those! The chatroom community then moved onto the Broadway.com message boards.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
Nif1025
Swing Joined: 6/15/04
#2Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 5/31/11 at 1:35amAnd what about the also-defunct Playbill message boards (at least I think they were message boards and not chat)? That was where I was glued around spring-summer 1997 where my (performing arts) summer camp had its 1st unofficial online presence (Long Lake Camp). I distinctly remember having to wait just to get into that section of the site and always reading posts from people who disapproved of Sherie R. Scott as a replacement Maureen in Rent! I have wanted to see what those messages looked like in recent years, but archive.org doesn't go that far! (I was also in high school back in those days, before any of us could connect with others on facebook, friendster, etc.) You can still go to that archive.org site to see what playbill.com looked like (Bway headlines of the day) in the late 90s!
carnimiriel
Stand-by Joined: 12/16/04
#3Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 5/31/11 at 5:07pmOh I remember this! You're talking about the chatroom moderated by Jenny Lyn Bader, right? My screen name then was Arch8ngl. That was the first time I got to chat with other Broadway fans and really feel how much of a community this was. Oh for those more innocent days...
#4Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 5/31/11 at 5:17pmHa! I didn't chat on AOL but I was on PBOL's chat when they hosted it on their own site. I was Serafimo. :)
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
Owen22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#5Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 5/31/11 at 10:01pm
I was Holbee...I remember actually arguing about "Rent" with Anthony Rapp on those boards while the original cast was still performing...
Updated On: 5/31/11 at 10:01 PM
henryt
Broadway Star Joined: 7/26/07
#6Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 5/31/11 at 11:06pmThis archive.org thing is so cool. This is what BWW looked like after being online for a week: https://web.archive.org/web/20030523140031/https://www.broadwayworld.com/
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#7Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 6/1/11 at 11:27amI was "Enema Man" before I got banned.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#8Old Playbill.COM Live Chat on AOL Reunion
Posted: 6/1/11 at 12:13pm
Ha, I was... DooWahDiddy. Actually, believe it or not, I met the woman who became my wife in that Playbill chat room. It didn't have a happy ending, as we divorced four years ago, but I still consider it a cool story.
Anyway, yes, I remember many a night spent in front of my (incredibly bulky) monitor talking about everything and nothing. Life was so much simpler then...
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