Launched: Best Attendance Onstage

Community theater is one area for which I originally envisioned Best Attendance to be useful. Stage managers typically carry around bundles of binders and paperwork, including constantly changing schedules and event calendars, and have for a long time been demanding a software solution.

Some stage managers are using Google Calendar and some are using Microsoft Office, but these general purpose applications leave a lot to be desired when it comes to the specific job of stage management.

There is one prominent player in the stage management software industry now, Virtual Callboard. They launched about four years ago and have been slowly gaining a real foothold among community theaters.

I think that my solution for stage management software does an even better job. Where it really shines above Virtual Callboard is in how clean and easy to use it is. Its attendance tracking and reporting capabilities are much more powerful, and it leaves out lesser used features.

For example, Virtual Callboard allows actors to enter their availability into the system, and it takes this into account when scheduling rehearsals. The problem is that in the real world, actors often forget to do this. The result is that many of those advanced features don't work the way they were intended to.

My focus is simplicity. Best Attendance is ridiculously easy to use, and I'm sure stage managers will love it.