Ken Davenport - Opinions from a Broadway Producer: Well, that's exactly what I thought . . . so then I wondered . . . why doesn't Broadway have a hotline? Why doesn't it have a toll free number that people can just call to find out stuff? Ivory Soap has one. Coke has one. And now Broadway has one too! Introducing 1-855-SEE-BWAY, the first ever free Broadway hotline.Yep, we created 1-855-SEE-BWAY (733-2929) to help answer your questions about Broadway.
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Got a question about Broadway? Then call the Hotline: 1-855-SEE-BWAY
Ken Davenport - Opinions from a Broadway Producer: Well, that's exactly what I thought . . . so then I wondered . . . why doesn't Broadway have a hotline? Why doesn't it have a toll free number that people can just call to find out stuff? Ivory Soap has one. Coke has one. And now Broadway has one too! Introducing 1-855-SEE-BWAY, the first ever free Broadway hotline.Yep, we created 1-855-SEE-BWAY (733-2929) to help answer your questions about Broadway.
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This sounds like a great idea! I think all the people who love theatre but don't get to New York often will really appreciate this information. It's not easy finding out the inside scoop. A lot of people spend hours on the internet researching things that will now, be just a phone call away. I like that it is staffed by theater lovers that are doing this because they think it should be available for everyone. There is no financial motivator for them. I hope this is a success so it will be available when I need it.
This is an excellent venture. I think that there should just be a hotline for New York in general. I can only ever figure out how to do anything if I have friends with me. The TKTS booth is stressful and confusing and sometimes you do just want someone who has the answers. I like the restaurant suggestion idea, it is hard to know what is good because there are so many restaurants, and all of them are so expensive so having someone to help negotiate that would be good as well. Although I do think that some of these questions (show times, sensitive material, length of shows) can be easily found online or at the box office it is nice to have someone that knows it all, who can just talk to you like a normal human being.
As Page and Zoe said, this is a wonderful idea, and I'm so glad that a company like Davenport Theatrical is behind it. I honestly wish that more hotlines were run by people, not just machines, and while this hotline specifically is not built to create new jobs, others could be putting people behind their phone lines and not robots, since everybody seems to want to talk to humans. In the case of Broadway, so few websites get updated quickly, and a lot of shows change their policies so quickly, making the info hard to keep up with. Maybe the creation of the hotline can help put that all in one place.
This of course is a great solution, but its a solution to a stupid problem. I am not sure why broadway is so difficult to gather information about in the first place. sure, there is a high demand for broadway tickets so the need to advertise and reach out is not exactly necessary (because so many people inquire themselves) but still - a little frustrating that some other organization has to make up for all the theatres lack of information. This hotline, however, is a great solution - and the fact that it is non profit based is ideal so calling them wont lead to a billion commercials via telephone and getting your number on some sales list.
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