Stage 17 looks to bring Broadway into your living room

NEW YORK (WABC) -- These days, there are so many ways to view movies and TV shows. You watch live, on demand, on a DVR or on your tablet or smartphone. But now, there's a whole new medium Broadway is hoping you'll want to stream at home.

That's right, stage shows right in your living room.

What Netflix is to movies and television, a new website called Stage 17 hopes to be for the Great White Way.

So could the future of Broadway be found on the internet? Ondine Abramson says yes, and the cost of seeing a show online is a fraction of the price of a theater ticket.

"We're talking something under $10 on the platform," she said. "And of course, a live theater ticket is a lot more than that."

She'll be the first to tell you that the platform is no substitute for the experience of a live stage show, but it's intended to introduce the magic of Broadway to young people.

"This might become a gateway for them to become more comfortable," she said.

And for those who already go to the theater, Stage 17 can enhance the experience.

Features take fans to the red carpet at the Tony Awards and to lunch at the famous Sardi's Restaurant for a look back at legendary shows.

The website has even begun to commission original programming.

"What's Your Emergency" is the brainchild of actor-turned-director Michael Urie.

"They are 911 operators in hell, Michigan, but unfortunately they are unqualified," he said. "They're un-intelligent and sometimes amoral."

He enlisted "Ugly Betty" co-star America Ferrera for one of the webisodes, and Alan Cumming filmed a brief bit for another.

"It is something that people want, people are interested in," Urie said. "Especially as people go the web for their content."

The future is here now, and the founders of Stage 17 are part of what's happening. They also hope to change the way plays and musicals are experienced by placing small cameras on stage so as to place the audience in the middle of the action.