Thursday, October 17, 2013
Last month, I announced the first ever “How to Raise Money For Your Show” Seminar and . . . it sold out in 17 hours. Â (It’s in two and a half weeks, and I’m gettin…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Are you frustrated that there aren’t enough new plays? Â New musicals? Â Plays by women? Â Musicals by minorities? Â One woman shows about Early Hungarian Cabinetmaking starrin…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Here’s something you don’t hear every day. Â Off Broadway isn’t shrinking or dying . . . it’s expanding. That’s the news in the NY Times today! Â (Click her…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2013
I get a lot of pitches to produce shows. Â I’m sure you do too. Â Produce one . . . or actually, just start telling people you’re a Producer . . . and people will want you to…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2013
About two and a half years ago, I blogged about New York City Opera’s shocking move out of Lincoln Center to . . . nowhere. It didn’t take a Harvard MBA to know what that meant .…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2013
Here’s a blog (and a concept) that the purists out there are gonna throw some serious hate on. First, a question . . . have you seen House of Cards? Â If so, do you like it? Odds are…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2013
As I blogged about yesterday, SEO may be one of the most important tools you can use to help make you money (appearing higher on the organic rankings should get you more clicks) AND simultan…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Broadway Producers, just like every other CEO or Company Head out there, have a lot on their mind. Â And it's impossible for them to know every aspect of how to run their business. Â In …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2013
I boarded a flight yesterday on an airline that shall-not-be-named (although I'll give you this hint " they don't have WiFi), and the flight attendant charged with greeting oncoming passenge…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2013
Winning a Best Musical Tony is one thing . . . but recouping? Nothing gets me more excited than recouping a show, because recouping means three things to a Broadway Producer: It means you di…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2013
Like so many others, there was time when I was addicted to my Crackberry. I can still hear the click-click-click of those keys. Â And the only time my thumbs were in better shape was in 19…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Effin’ politicians. Just when you think things can’t get any worse, they do. Â Like Cats and Dogs and Jets and Sharks, these guys just can’t seem to get along. And it jus…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2013
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the fraternity-filled town of New Brunswick, New Jersey these past couple of weeks, rehearsing / teching / opening Gettin’ The Band Back To…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer's Perspective The most read post of the month:Â After Nine Awesome years . . . The most commented o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
Most people think that the greatest inventors or creators in the world are hit by lightning bolts of inspiration that cause them to come up with a successful product. Â I’ve heard ma…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
I’ve been looking to do a “10 Qs” post by a Broadway General Manager for a long time. Â But it’s taken a looooong a$$ time, because they are all so dang busy. Â W…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
You probably think that the subject of this blog is about our declining attendance rate. But it’s not. In fact, it’s the kind of blog that reminds you that declining or rising at…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The Off Broadway Alliance is out to educate y0u once again. This Sunday, September 29th, the OBA (the organization behind the very successful 20at20Â promotion) is sponsoring an awesome pa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The crowdfunding event I spoke at last week was held at the infamous Players Club in Gramercy Park. Â If you’re not familiar with The Players, it’s a schamncy members-only org …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
Great blog title right? Before you go patting me on the back, let me tell you that I didn’t write it. It was written by a PR and Communications Pro in Washington who has “never t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2013
If you haven’t been reading the blog day-in and day-out over the last week, let me do a little wrap up for you. Â In the last 7 or so days, I’ve . . . Announced that I signed o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
Everyone in the world of investing, whether that means Broadway investing or Hedge Fund investing or Early Hungarian Cabinetmaking investing, has been talking about crowdfunding since the JO…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Back in early June, I blogged about a change in the Gmail inbox that you are probably all very aware of by now – the separation of your inbox into three categories: Â primary, social…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Last week, Mark Gordon and Hawk Koch, the Presidents of The Producers Guild (the Hollywood version of The Broadway League), called the 40+ names of Producers on The Butler ”embar…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
The Awesome 80s Prom was my very first show in New York. After a decade of Company Managing and General Managing Broadway shows and National Tours and dreaming about creating my own, I jumpe…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
Alright Procrastinators . . . did you accomplish that New Year’s Resolution of yours to finish your musical? Â I hope so, because the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s submis…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2013
On Tuesday, I tweeted that I had just signed on to be an above-the-title Producer on a new Broadway show arriving this season (in just a few months actually). Now that the ink is drying on t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
If you’ve taken a stroll down the middle of Times Square lately, you may have noticed that a huge chunk of the street has been ripped up around 42nd street. It looks like this: …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Oh, how different things were just a few years ago. When I was brainstorming creative ways to raise money for Godspell that were aligned with the creative message of the show (Godspell…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
I have a man crush on Bob Greenblatt. I first met him back in the day, when he was still at Showtime, and producing 9 to 5Â in his spare time (I mean, that’s a seriously successful m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2013
Yesterday, we looked at some nasty-a$$ numbers about the first quarter of the Broadway season. And, as you may recall, it got me a little jittery. So, I put a whole bunch of numbers into a g…
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