Tuesday, July 30, 2013
First, yes, I’ll admit, the title of this blog sounds a little creepy. But it’ll make sense. Â I hope. If you love Broadway show tunes, then I bet you have a soft spot in your …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2013
Negotiations in the theater shouldn’t take very long. Â Jobs aren’t as common, so most Artists want to find a way to take the gig. Â And most Artists have such specific talen…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
JK Rowling has been casting some magic spells again. Â And this one was called “Pseudonymicus Invisiblistus!” Here’s the cliff notes version of what happened: JK wrote a …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
A great article appeared in The Journal last week written by its critic (and one of last year’s TEDx Broadway speakers), Terry Teachout. As we all know, it’s easy for us (includi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Some of the coolest cold emails I get are from high school students all over the country, asking me for advice on where to go and what to study in college if they want to work on Broadway so…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2013
There are no absolutes in marketing. Except this one: No show is for “everyone”. One of the most common mistakes that new Producers/Writers make is thinking that their show appea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
As I blogged about on Friday, Netflix dealt the mainstream media companies a major punch-in-the-face last week when their original series, House of Cards, was nominated for a Best Drama S…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2013
Entertainment industry history was made yesterday when Netflix, the service I formerly referred to as Blockbuster-online, was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards for its original programming. It wa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
In my Broadway Investing Seminar, I always take a moment to answer the question “why do people invest in Broadway shows?” There are a bunch of reasons, from going to the opening …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2013
I get breaking news from CNN pushed to my iPhone, as I’m sure a lot of you do as well. Â And I’ve read some pretty sad things over the years. But for some reason, the death of …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
I walked into a restaurant over the weekend (ok, ok, there may have been buffalo wings on the menu), and it was emptier than a Saturday matinee of Dude. The hostess was reading US Weekly, an…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
I don’t know about you, but I think this Tony Kushner guy has a future.  The dude can write. Case in point . . . Remember that giveaway that I announced yesterday for Encores! Of…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2013
Think Broadway tickets (and concert tickets and sports tickets) are too expensive? Well, here comes an article from the NY Times which details the new strategy on the concert circuit . . . r…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
Here’s a little known secret out there for all you Producers looking to raise money internationally, and for all you wealthy foreign nationals looking to obtain green card status in ou…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
You know what I love about David Rockwell? He’s the King of the Crossover, designing everything from hotels like the fabu Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and restaurants like Nobu to airp…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
I love me an amusement park. Â At least one day every summer, you can find me at Six Flags eating a funnel cake (although we simply called ‘em fried dough back in Mass), and riding t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
The 10th Anniversary of the New York Theatre Musical Festival is upon us! Â Boy, it seems like just yesterday I was attending an orientation meeting for Season #1 when Altar Boyz made it&#…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2013
I helped a friend by a car yesterday. Thanks to the world-wide-interwebs, buying a vehicle ain’t like what it used to be. Â Thanks to websites like Truecar.com, buyers can walk into …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2013
As we all take a moment today to celebrate the independence of our wonderful (even though at times dysfunctional) nation, I thought we should also take a moment to celebrate the Independence…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2013
I recently found myself at a vacation destination . . . where the local economy is fueled almost entirely by tourists who fly in from places around the world. When I arrived, I was welcomed …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Well, looks-a-daisy what we have here. Gordon Cox at Variety, who thankfully still gets to write about theater even though his publishers have slashed legit coverage like it was a rain fores…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 1, 2013
For the record, non-profit producing ain’t for me. I’ve got a lot of respect for those that can do it well, because just the thought of asking for money from folks with no possib…
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 My Top 6 Favorite Things about the 2013 Tony …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2013
The only party game more fun that YouTubing “people falling down” is watching polished and poised News Anchors f*@# up. Â They’ve got perfect hair, perfect skin, and spea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2013
Da-da-da-da! Â (That’s supposed to be a trumpet sound, btw.) The e-envelopes please, because it is time to announce the winners of the 2013 Broadway Marketing Awards, as chosen by yo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
It’s the battle of the business publications! In this corner, we have the Harvard Business Review, who in April published “7 Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People.R…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
I met Richard Matheson in 2001. I was 28 years old.  And I hadn’t produced a dang thing. But I had a lot of ideas, and one of them was turning his novel and screenplay, Somewhere…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
I popped a rights request off to a major movie studio last week . . . for a semi-popular but mostly-forgotten flick that I think has tuner potential. The response I got from the studio inclu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2013
We’ll get to the “fun” part of this Friday post in a paragraph or two, but this first bit ain’t so fun. The world tragically lost the big boss, Mr. James Gandolfini, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
I’ve been stewing about titles a lot lately.  In fact, the show that I announced on this blog as Garage Band a few months ago, that opens at George Street Playhouse in the fall, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
I did something crazy the other day. I read a newspaper. Not a kindle version. Â Not the .com version. Â No. Â I picked up and read an actual, ink comes off on your fingers, NY Times. …
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