CMU School of Drama


Friday, November 14, 2008

Really Useful Group website to offer social networking

The Stage: "Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has overhauled its website to include a new social networking section where theatre fans can have their own show-themed profile pages.
The section, called Backstage, allows users to post reviews and blogs and access audio and video content, as well as breaking news and features."

2 comments:

Laura Oliver said...

"This includes booking tickets, buying show merchandise and pre-ordering interval drinks."

Ridiculous. I really am interested to know how many people are going to use this, another service we never knew we needed. I mean really, what theater goer has ever thought "I wish I could order my drink before I get to the theater". Thank you Andrew Lloyd Weber.

JIsrael said...

I can't see this really becoming a popular service, either. If people want to discuss Phantom of the Opera, they are probably more likely to create a Facebook group in which to do this as opposed to registering with yet another website. Adding things like booking tickets won't really help when, in all likelihood, this is just a link to
Ticketmaster's website, something that can be put on any website. This all is pretty much out there already, so this new website isn't so necessary.