It's All Happening
Posted on | July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments
In a last, delirious push, I finished the final revision of the Season Preview and sent out the invitations to 234 of the 239 companies we know of and suspect are producing in Chicago.
I point you once again to the Datablog for the official announcement, but I want to make a personal appeal to the theatrosphere. Many of you who read my blog also write blogs frequented by Chicago theatre folk. I’m asking all those of you who support the project to help publicize the survey. The more people who know about the survey, the greater the chance word will get to those smaller companies who don’t check their emails too often, or the folks who we outright missed when compiling the initial list of companies.
Take a look at the survey – we worked pretty hard to make it adaptable, comprehensive, and user-friendly. Click around it to drill down on some of the questions – there’s a lot of show/hide functionality (and don’t worry, if you use the UserID “Browsing” you’re not screwing anything up.)
A good response from the theatre community will mean not only some great, detailed information on what the 2008-9 season holds. This is the largest and most complete inventory (if you’ll excuse the word) of how theatre gets done in Chicago. Once we get this data back, we’ll be able to serve it up to everyone via the CTDB – along with the tools to dig deeper, slice it apart, lay it end to end and generally give everyone a chance – for maybe the first time – to get the lay of the land. I mean, I’m excited just thinking about it.
And it all starts right here. So please help spread the word.
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August 1st, 2008 @ 6:53 am
I just want to say that this effort is really impressive, and I sincerely hope that Chicago theatres respond supportively and with vigor. This could be the first step toward a greater cooperation among Chicago theatres, and could make a big difference.
August 1st, 2008 @ 10:11 am
I filled mine out yesterday. And I want to say it was user friendly, easy to complete, slick and professional looking. I think the team responsible for this should be bought many beers and other various economic kudos!