SO this happened. Thursday night I came home, poured a glass (or two(three))of wine and typed away on my laptop. With Snowpocalypse happening outside, I decided let's be cheeky and snap a shot for Tumblr. Because, as we all know: Tumblr is where you do this. Here is the original.
Enter my colleagues to have a little fun with this and spread it around the Internet. Well played folks. WELL PLAYED.
Full photo set below including Yuna Park, Taylor Newby, Molly Washam, Stephanie Startz, Ryan Lawler, Caroline McCarthy and Alyssa Galella. Others to be added as I AM SURE more people will join in.
Ken Davenport writes a fantastic blog each day from the view of a Broadway Producer. So fantastic that I actually subscribe via e-mail to it. He's the only blog I do that for.
Today, his post is not just for the aspiring screenwriter or actor, but the busy workers in all of us. The many of us dealing with deadlines, clients, plans, updates, you name it. The ones that could always use a bit of a push in the system or break up our daily routines to keep things organized.
Ken calls it the "Adult Homework System" or AHS. I like it.
Here's how it works:
Find yourself a friend, a teacher, a shrink, or even a random person online.
Describe what you want to accomplish (complete a script, a song, or whatever).
Make that person give you your homework with a due date.
Do it in the allotted time.
Rinse and repeat.
It's holding yourself accountable for things outside of the usual deadlines. So, for us all in the client service industry or agency land, your person would normally be your client. Instead, work someone else into the picture and have them be your "teacher". Break the mold of the normal and you'll think a bit differently.
After months of waiting, I finally saw Hair on Broadway last night with my best friend Jay. I've been dying to see this show. The music is just amazing, Gavin Creel, Will Swenson and Caissie Levy are favorites of mine and the "fun factor" of the show and engagement with the audience has earned chatter since opening night.
Broadway is one of those events that I tend to keep my phone in my purse. For one, you can't have your phones out during the show as you'll get a stern talking to from the usher. Second, it's just rude to have it out and live tweet when you have performers on stage acting and singing their heart out.
That said, I did do SOME of my normal internet stuff and there's a lot of opportunity moving forward that shows can take advantage of.
Foursquare: Upon arriving at the theater, I checked in at the Al Hirschfeld Theater. Tips were normal, go see Hair and dance on stage. Would have loved tips or back stories about the theater. What else had played there? has the theater been renovated? All of these theaters in New York have some sort of history to it, would love to know more.
OMGICU: BroadwaySpace.com has a special Twitter account whenever people spot Broadway celebs on the street-BroadwaySpotted. Integrating this with OMGICU would be awesome and help track all of them.
Social media and Broadway is a world that has done some amazing things this past year and is quickly becoming a perfect example of keeping fans excited about the show before they see it, after they see it, and hopefully encouraging them to buy tickets again.
Hair's social work is represented by Situation Interactive, an agency I have always admired for doing amazing work socially in the entertainment world. Hair has a Twitter account with charity auctions and contests, they set up the awesome Facebook page and recently launched the "Hair eParty" where you can tag the video of the audience dancing on the stage at the end of the show. (I'm still waiting for mine to go live today as I was OBVIOUSLY one of the first ones on the stage--come on!)
Situation has done such a fantastic job, because they're dealing with events that you can't "live tweet" or live update from, a trend that helps other brands events really gain momentum. Bravo to them for it doing it so successfully. I'm excited to see what they do with the upcoming American Idiot show, based off of music by Green Day. (They already have a Twitter and Facebook set up)
Ken Davenport (uber talented producer on Broadway and founder of Broadwayspace.com) wrote this great article in Mashable a few months back. It's all still relevant. Take a read.
I was at the International Gift Fair at the Javits Center today for a client. As we walked around the ginormous exhibit hall, my colleague Stephanie and I took photos for upcoming content needs.
As Stephanie snapped around some scenery photos an older woman came up and scanned her badge to see where she was from. She then told us that the exhibitors "preferred" that photos only be taken by the press. Her snotty look informed us to put our camera down.
I was taken back by 1)the rudeness and 2)the odd things she was saying. Because I don't have a press pass I can't take a photo?
What is still apparent, even after the growing acceptance of social media across all areas is the knowledge that in this world, basically everyone is the press. That woman has no idea I have a blog (Stephanie does too!) I could be helping out her product by sending these photos to my friend. I could be tweeting a Twitpic raving about them or posting it to my Tumblr. My photo is probably helping her more than she knows.
