Making Theatre History with Daddy Long Legs
On Thursday, December 10th, Livestream and The Davenport Theatre made theatre history.
On Thursday, December 10th, Livestream and The Davenport Theatre made theatre history.
The Off-Broadway musical Daddy Long Legs made theatre history December 10 by being the first-ever Off-Broadway performance to be broadcast online to the world for free.
The groundbreaking live broadcast of the off-Broadway musical “Daddy Long Legs” got quite some attention.
Some 150,055 people watched the livestreams on December 10, which is equivalent to 10.
Producer Ken Davenport, who arranged for the first ever free online stream of any Broadway or off-Broadway show, said Tuesday that the data exceeded his expectations.
The majority of viewers — 78.4 per cent — were in the US, but the show was also watched in places like Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Fiji and Syria.
The largest percentage of views came from within driving distance to the Davenport Theatre, where the show is playing.
The Off-Broadway musical Daddy Long Legs made theatre history December 10 by being the first-ever Off-Broadway performance to be broadcast online to the world for free.
Some 150,055 people watched the livestreams on December 10, which is equivalent to 10.
The December 10 performance of off-off-Broadway’s musical two-hander Daddy Long Legs was performed before an audience 1,000 times its normal size when the show became the first to be telecast live over the Internet from a New York stage.