The Theatre History Podcast
Episode 110: Scrolling TikTok on Broadway w/ Dr. Trevor Boffone
February 16, 202650 min · 8,587 words
Show notes
TikTok might not seem like a natural fit with Broadway – or, for that matter, with the subject of theatre history. As our guest today writes, "an entire generation's attention span became roughly fifteen seconds" once the short video app caught on, and it's been at the center of numerous controversies, political and otherwise.
Highlighted moments
what TikTok does differently is TikTok has the notoriously incredibly powerful algorithm. TikTok finds the fans. TikTok finds you.
“a student walked in, a student who was not into musicals, was not a theater student, walked in and said, ah, Dr. Bufoni, why are you playing TikTok music?”
“it sort of created this cohort of people co-writing a musical. You also had accounts that were building out the world of the musical.”
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