Question about Broadway.com's "Recommended Shows"
Question about Broadway.com's "Recommended Shows"
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#1Question about Broadway.com's "Recommended Shows"
Posted: 3/20/08 at 3:48pm
Is that one person's opinion? Or a bunch of people's opinions?
I notice Young Frankenstein and Cry Baby are recommended, but SITPWG and Passing Strange are not.
That seems to be very opposite than people's opinions here so I was just curious.
#2re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/20/08 at 3:51pmyou should give shows a chance! stop jumping on the bandwagon!
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#2re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/20/08 at 3:53pmI do give shows a chance. I live in FLORIDA and have been to NYC 3 years in a row to see shows.
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#4re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/20/08 at 8:27pmBroadway.com sells tickets at expensive prices ! So, I wouldn't call its reviews very objective ! In my opinion, of course !
#5re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/20/08 at 8:29pmWhoever pays them to list their shows as recommended.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#6re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 3:57pmWBaF, that can't be the real answer. Does anyone have the answer?
#7re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 4:01pm
It's not based on reviews.
They just rotate shows in and out of the 'recommended' spotlight.
I imagine shows pay to be in that spot, especially because "broadway.com" is the first thing that Joe Nobody from Podunksville, Illinois will type in when searching for tickets.
Yeah, if you want recommendations based on quality, go to the New York Times theatre website. (Well, quality according to Brantley. But he's usually right.)
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#8re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 4:05pmThat's not true. Wicked's never been recommended. And Mamma Mia has never not been recommended. I don't think they rotate shows from what I have seen.
#9re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 4:22pm
Well Wicked and Mamma Mia don't need to advertise on broadway.com.
When I say rotate, I mean that they put whatever show pays them.
Also, they sell tickets, and its tough to sell wicked tickets, because there aren't too many available.
It's a money thing.
That's prime advertising space.
#10re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 5:51pm
people pay to get their shows "recomended" just like those restaurants in the back of the playbill that the "stars" recommend.
sad, but true.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#11re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 6:01pm
Wicked's never been recommended. And Mamma Mia has never not been recommended.
I wouldn't recommend them either...
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#12re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 6:16pmRead what I wrote....Mamma Mia has never NOT been recommended.
#13re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 6:23pm
Oh, well then I apologize.
It's probably there because they pay for the advertising, because its a recognizable commodity to regular Americans.
By the way, that's a terribly confusing double negative.
HBBrock
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/11/07
#14re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 6:31pmSorry for the confusion :)
#15re: Question about Broadway.com's 'Recommended Shows'
Posted: 3/26/08 at 7:32pmI'm thinking that the true answer is pretty much what WBaF said. They charge ridiculous handling fees to people that have no knowledge of the existence of telecharge, so it wouldn't surprise me if those "recommended" spaces are sold as "advertisements".
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