Help the Broadway Center - A Survey
The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts is looking for your input and invites you to participate in the selection process for the new 2009-10 season!
It only takes a moment to share your opinion and influence the line-up for the upcoming season. The theaters are yours, and by telling them “Why yes, that show looks cool” and that you would be interested in attending a performance, or “No thanks, I’m not really interested.” for each of the potential shows listed, you are helping them determine what lineup best suits the community. Remember, saying “YES” does not commit you to purchasing a ticket; rather, it serves as a valuable tool as they select the next season’s shows.
You can do it! (we dare ya)
Filed under: Arts, Get-Involved
10 comments
C Crenshaw Sepulveda February 20, 2009
A very long survey and they want your personal information at the end. I wish I had known this going in. If you don’t give them your personal info you have wasted your time.
M Mofo from the Hood February 20, 2009
“Why yes, that show looks cool”
That’s one of those sentences that has to be read in context. Because if I were to hear that on the radio said with a Dixie accent…
S Squid February 20, 2009
Mofo, that took me a second, but I’ve spent just enough time south of the Mason Dixon line to finally get it.
S Steve February 20, 2009
Ditto with Crenshaw. I chose not to send my opinions for that reason, too. It wasn’t just that they want my contact info but also that I had to agree to have them send me their promo emails.
X X February 21, 2009
It’s easy when you are taking surveys to bypass things like address/email by putting an X in the space. At least then they’ll get your opinion and you won’t feel like you are receiving unwanted information. Fact of the matter is, if you really care about what’s happening at the theaters to take the five minutes to give your opinion, you are most likely on their mailing list already.
C crenshaw sepulveda February 21, 2009
As a great American president once said, “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
I think the survey is pretty sleazy, I expect much better of our cultural institutions.
K Krysta at BCPA February 24, 2009
Crenshaw – why sleazy – you mean the options or simply doing a survey?
C crenshaw sepulveda February 24, 2009
It is sleazy to take advantage of someone going through all the trouble of taking a survey just to gather personal information. The survey should have asked for the personal information right up front and giving the taker the option to stop right there rather then spending their valuable time on many pages of questions only to find out that all that work was for noting because the survey was just a vehicle for gathering personal information. I took the survey, it took a lot of thought to complete it. I tried to submit the survey without the personal information and it was REFUSED. Pretty sleazy in my book.
P P February 24, 2009
It is sleazy to take advantage of someone going through all the trouble of taking a survey just to gather personal information.
I think you’re being overly harsh here. I do not know this for a fact, but I would believe the BCPA created the survey for its intended purposes. Its goal was not to harvest your information. Electronic surveys make it extremely easy to check a box that makes something required. It may have seemed like a good idea at the time. It happens. You can give feedback about the format without assuming evil intent. Help them learn.
K Krysta at BCPA February 24, 2009
Thanks P. for your open mind – the survey was created with the best intentions of getting feedback on shows, and the personal info just seemed like a normal step.
…but I also totally hear crenshaw’s complaint and will pass that info along, too.
Point taken.
(And in that round about way – you too gave good feedback – thanks.)