Latest Broadway unlocked Podcast Episodes
Can’t Change the Past, We Can Only Charge Forward
The Get Together - March 17, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the ongoing competition of the UK vs US on this podcast, our friends across the pond frequently do a bit better than us on supporting the arts and acknowledging that they are important by financially backing them. But as of this week, get your party hats out, we are catching up! The NYPAL rece...
Live Digital 101
The Get Together - March 10, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe’ve been throwing around terms willy nilly around here and thought we’d take a beat to talk a bit about what Live Digital means to us, how our clients are using it and why we think the meaning has more to do about what the humans do with the machines than the technology itself. Listen in for m...
Into the Abyss w/ Lucie Kirk
The Get Together - March 03, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Lucie is working double duty, producing and being a guest! Lucie is sadly leaving Broadway Unlocked this week but before she goes Jess and Joe have lots of questions about what she's taken away from working in live digital and what the heck all of this means! If you've ever wanted to kn...
Viva la Story
The Get Together - February 25, 2022 03:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJess and Joe are thrilled to be new members of WXO, the World Experience Organization. Much like us, they are all about collaboration across different sectors for the sake of sharing new ideas and improving experiences of all varieties. This week we are digging deep into one article from them, al...
Living Room Potluck w/ Andrea Prestinario and Aislinn Frantz
The Get Together - February 22, 2022 23:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRing of Keys is an awesome non-profit working to connect and advocate for queer women, non-binary and trans people in musical theater, on and off stage. Joe and Jess were so lucky to sit down with Co-Founder of the org, Andrea Prestinario and newly-minted Executive Director, Aislinn Frantz! They ...
Make Something Bad w/ Chris Ashworth
The Get Together - February 15, 2022 00:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Jess and Joe speak with Chris Ashworth, creator of QLab software, founder of Figure53 and the Voxel Theater in Baltimore. Chris talks about the way acting has informed how and why he programs the way he does and alternately how knowledge of technology has helped him extend his understan...
Sh!tstorm Paradox
The Get Together - February 09, 2022 12:15 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to The Get Together, our old-ish podcast with a cool new name! Some things will be different but for now enjoy the comforting sounds of Jess and Joe discussing Spotify's identity issues, how individuals can operate outside of existing technology and the portability of data. It's all about...
Speculative Bubble of Nonsense
The Get Together - February 04, 2022 03:45 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor two people who were very suspicious of NFTs only a few months ago, Joe and Jess have a lot of ideas about their application in the theatre space. Listen to hear about some innovative companies already making NFT merchandise and some of our own ideas about how to tie that merch to in-person ex...
Solving for New Problems
The Get Together - January 31, 2022 00:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn this week's episode, Joe and Jess discuss a potpourri of news from the theatre world. We are constantly reassessing the systems we have in place, whether it's how shows get produced or how we buy tickets to the shows we are interested in seeing! The Palace Theatre construction: https://www.fa...
Data Meets Storytelling
The Get Together - January 20, 2022 20:15 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJess and Joe are again joined this week by Broadway Unlocked's Creative and Cause Director, Jermaine Blackwell! They breakdown a report from the end of last year, detailing how audiences are consuming art, what has changed for them throughout the pandemic and what cultural changes they would like...
A Rising Tide Raises All Artists
The Get Together - January 13, 2022 21:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoe and Jess talk about all the adversity that theatre as an industry and individual theatre artists are facing right now. In a bright spot amongst cancellations and closures, David Byrne's American Utopia was able to remain open earlier this month by reconfiguring the show to accommodate fewer m...
Preserving the Present w/ Paul Taylor's Michael Novak
The Get Together - January 07, 2022 21:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Jess and Joe had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Novak, Artistic Director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Having taken over the company in 2018, Novak has had the incredible responsibility of navigating them through the pandemic. They've embraced technology and used it to co...
The Nimble Creator
The Get Together - December 31, 2021 16:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe phrase "we invest in people" is one that is thrown around a lot in the world of venture capitalism. But there's a new company on the market that's actually trying to operate by that phrase and giving individual creators large sums of money to grow their brands. Jess and Joe unpack the pros a...
The Red Lobster of Theatre w/ Jermaine Blackwell
The Get Together - December 23, 2021 23:15 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Joe and Jess are joined by dear friend and Broadway Unlocked's Creative and Cause Director, Jermaine Blackwell! The three of them talk about which Broadway shows are like various fast food chains, why we seek out comforting content in troubling times and how Broadway has played a role i...
Mini-sode: A Part of Something Bigger
The Get Together - December 17, 2021 17:15 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe passing of Stephen Sondheim left a rather large hole in American musical theater. Sondheim was know for being a mentor to so many in this community, including Rent creator, Jonathan Larson. Joe and Jess postulate about the next generation of theatre makers and finding and supporting the artis...
A Leaky Pipeline
The Get Together - December 09, 2021 23:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Jess and Joe talk about the way we collect data and why it's important to question our methods so that we don't unintentionally leave groups and people out. Surveying theatre organizations based solely on this size of their budget means you get results skewed away from organizations tha...
Impetus for Exodus
The Get Together - December 02, 2021 18:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor many people the pandemic affected not just daily life, but inspired them to make large-scale changes. In the last year the theater industry has seen a mass exodus of their workers as they seek out careers that offer more reasonable hours and better work-life balance. Jess and Joe point out th...
The Jury is Still Out
The Get Together - November 27, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNews in the theatre community these last few weeks have been the highest of highs and lowest of lows. On the one hand, new and exciting movie- musical adaptations continue to roll out. Including the recent casting announcements for the upcoming Wicked feature film (hold for applause). On the othe...
Making Of: Promethean Fire
The Get Together - November 18, 2021 20:15 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBack in September, Broadway Unlocked had the honor of filming at the Oculus with Paul Taylor Dance Company as they gifted a performance of Promethean Fire to the city and the people of New York. After the shoot, Jess and Joe sat down to share their experiences as director and set PA, respectively...
Jesters of the Corpocracy
The Get Together - November 12, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBig tech is getting bigger every day, so this week Joe and Jess speculate about a (hopefully distant) future where corporations operate like governments. (Hellscape hellscape blah blah blah...) While we don't want to live in the 'metaverse' just yet, we find it important to consider the impact an...
A Startup Hero's Journey
The Get Together - November 04, 2021 20:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJess comes from the theatre world. Joe comes from the startup world. But when they join forces we come to realize that there are some surprising industry similarities and a lot that we can learn from each other. On today's epsiode Jess and Joe talk about the still uncertain economic landscape of ...
No Perfect Solution
The Get Together - October 28, 2021 15:15 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Joe and Jess tackle the issue of Broadway merchandizing and improvements that are slowly being made to the system. They also discuss feature film writing credits and changes proposed by the WGA. It's an enlightening example of how the theatre and film industries differ, and possibly wha...
Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle
The Get Together - October 21, 2021 23:15 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoe and Jess (naturally) have a lot of thoughts about the CAA/ICM merger. If they decide to go ahead as planned and focus more on helping their clients with entrepreneurial pursuits, how will these new revenue streams benefit the talent? And how are they being protected and not taken advantage of...
Don't Dig Too Deep
The Get Together - October 14, 2021 14:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA few months ago, before Broadway reopened, Jess and Joe had a discussion about the shows that announced they would not be reporting their grosses for this season. They run down how industry professionals utilize these numbers and why freeing the data is important. What would you do with that inf...
Fiefdoms are Cute
The Get Together - October 07, 2021 20:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn modern society we are already allowing technology and large corporations to have significant access to our personal information. Joe and Jess discuss where the line should be drawn in regards to Amazon One, hand scanning technology which is now being implemented in theater and concert venues. ...
Tony Awards: Two Platforms, Both Alike in Dignity
The Get Together - September 30, 2021 22:45 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Tonys are back! Against all odds the famous theatre awards returned last week and Jess and Joe have lots of thoughts. The split broadcast on streaming and traditional television left us wondering about the future of the award show and the best way to reach the vast and diverse audience of the...
Irksome Philanthropy
The Get Together - September 23, 2021 17:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this epsiode, Joe and Jess take on philanthropy. Specifically, they talk about large donations to small arts organizations and wonder why we rely on wealthy individuals, rather than our government, for support. One upside of this relationship is often the creation of brand new mediums for arti...
A Thing That Matters
The Get Together - September 16, 2021 15:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow do you define theatre and does it matter? Jess and Joe get into the ongoing debate of how we are using the designation of theatre as the digital world expands. They also discuss who benefits from certain definitions. And stick around until the end to hear their take on ASL interpreters and ho...
Bartering for Content
The Get Together - September 09, 2021 14:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week Jess and Joe are unpacking what it means for venture capitalists to be interested in content creators and the platforms they create on. They ponder how we can protect individuals in the digital landscape and whether or not blockchain technology can be used for good. Get into Clubhouse ...
The No, But Bit: NDT Broadgate
The Get Together - September 02, 2021 15:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this week's epsiode Joe and Jess are joined by guest, Justin Masterson. Justin is the Senior Project Manager at NDT Broadgate, a brand new rehearsal space and artist development complex in London. They talk all about the space and how it can serve as a model for more artist spaces around the w...
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