Posts tagged STAGE 17

This Broadway retrospective seeks to bring fans of classic shows online, in the hopes they might find some new classics available for viewing on Stage17.

After being asked to bring a character that he might use for an SNL audition into his improv class at Juilliard, creator Ryan Spahn came up with an idiot 911 Call Center Employee who’s more interested in getting your name right than helping you with your emergency – a concept Stage17 decided to take a chance on.

Says Evans: “I’d like to borrow five minutes of your day to make you laugh. I’d like to take you out of your world for a moment and bring you into mine. I’d like to share part of myself with you, and I hope you see a bit of yourself in that part as well.”

This group is among the last generation dating before the internet changed the way we make connections. They now have to figure out how to make the impersonal personal. And it is not a welcoming place. It was so much easier when you had to work for it.