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Who doesn love a good NPR pledge drive? Well, fasten your tote bags, activist theatergoers: The tradition of high-minded hat-passing is now to Broadway. We said earlier about Barry Weissler tantalizing announcement which the Red Bull Hats
could come back to Broadway if enough prospective buyers head to and make up a nonbinding pledge to order seats in the pecial expense of $10,?and thus we now have the equally tantalizing chance of a fresh Era Hats of Kickstarter theater. So are we taking a look at some sort of where theatrical audiences decide theatrical content by direct-deposit, er, direct democracy? By pledge plebiscite?

Well, not nearly, but not right this moment. Producers, major nonprofits, and also the capital they generate are still the carbs inside belly of Broadway metabolism. But MoveOn.org-style attempts at public outreach appear to be growing more numerous and much more urgent. To revisit the NPR thing to get a second: Cheap Snapback Hats, recently, come to reframing its periodic hat-passing for exercise in wallet democracy. With all your pledge, youe voting for that programming you need. Well, wasn much the same idea winter ?the notion of bringing semi-democratized micro-capital to Broadway ?floated by producer Ken Davenport last fall, while he explored selections for crowd-financing Godspell?

Theater happens to be a faith-based initiative, but producers are not so open about passing the collection plate. Weissler et them take their money where their e-mails are" may not be a great deal of war whoop (he really need to hire a lyricist), nevertheless it raises interesting questions. Wee already seeing the decentralization with the theater-industrial complex: Just check out dozens of eager little names floating within a gnatlike word cloud up the show title as part of your latest Playbill. Wee really just a purchase-of-magnitude or two away from micro-financed theater Monster Energy Cheap New Era Hats. This may mean voting on your season (new work and revivals) with a campaign-donation-size ticket pledge. What would this capacity to the individuals mean, exactly? Great new works? Or, in the event the Glee demographic gets involved, nonstop revivals of Seussical?