Monday, April 1, 2013
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: Why the Veronica Mars movie backers got screwed.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2013
Alright, let’s talk about how we can do some damage and start to take back our discounts! Â (Insert revolutionary cheers and french people waving flags and putting up barricades here…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2013
Whether you know it or not, we’ve been at war for years. Our enemy? Â The discount sites . . . the code farms . . . those not-so-secret online destinations where customers, some of w…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
I saw War Horse when it was a wee pony of a show at The National Theatre and remember thinking how wonderful it was going to be on Broadway. And it was. Although it didn’t last as long…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Over the past decade or so, Broadway has had a popular music invasion, as artists like Elton John, Paul Simon, U2, The Eurythmics tried their hand at writing the score to a musical. Â Some…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
Last Thursday, I announced that Hunter Chancellor won our very first Associate Producer Scholarship on my upcoming production of The Scottish Play Macbeth. Â (Alan says we can say it where…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2013
If you haven’t heard, Rob Thomas, the creator of the Veronica Mars television series, launched a “Make The Movie of VM” Kickstarter campaign recently, in an effort to make …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
What a day I had on Tuesday. For three hours, 12 future Broadway-Producers-To-Be and I talked all things theater, including marketing, financing, and why the show that I wish I would have pr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
I stumbled on this website recently that had a bunch of great tips on writing from folks like David Ogilvy and Henry Miller . . . but it was Ol’ Kurt Vonnegut’s tips on writing a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Before I begin this blog, let me say, I believe brokers have a place in our business. Â And in most businesses, actually. Â The free market system should allow an individual or a busines…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
Miss this year's TEDxBroadway? Curious as to where I got my "takeaways?” Or were you there and do you just miss TEDxBroadway? And now you’re jonesin’ to re-see speakers lik…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Whenever I scan a production budget for a new show, and see that hefty figure allocated to the opening night party, the scrooge in me always takes over and wonders, "What if we didn't have a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2013
Thanks to the glorious thing that is cable television, I watched one of my favorite 80s movies over the weekend . . . Wargames . . . starring none other than Nice Work if You Can Get It's Ma…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Remember that time I said we’d have 10 Finalists for the Macbeth Associate Producer Scholarship? Well, because we received an inbox-clogging several hundred applications, I’m …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
A news alert from my neighbors upstairs! Â (Did you know I was in the same building as NYMF? Â Well, ya do now!) NYMF’s annual networking extravaganza is this coming Saturday, Marc…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
A great lesson in business comes to us today from a new company called Pogoseat, who has developed some brand new software that could have a serious application in the theater. Remember that…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2013
It’s trivia week here at the Producer’s Perspective! Â Yesterday a Sondheim stat and now take a look at this: We all know that print advertising is on the decline, right? Well,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
Everyone knows that the great Mr. S. has had a major impact on the Broadway stage, right? Well, get this. Our office just noticed that there isn’t a show with songs by our “Shake…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2013
There’s something you never thought I’d say, right? Well, I didn’t. But Gary Emmanuel, who happens to be one of the brilliant lawyers that made my crowd-funded Broadway pro…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2013
It’s been over a week since Seth MacFarlane offended a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) and Anne Hathaway pi$$ed off a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) at…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
I remember when I was just starting out in the biz and thought I knew everything about sales. And then I met a box office treasurer and realized I didn’t know nuthin’. Why sure, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2013
Musical theater writers out there are facing the exact same problem that popular music writers/artists faced years ago: Â the internet has made it waaaaay too easy to steal their work. See…
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: Wanna be an Associate Producer? Introducing the …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2013
Yesterday we refuted the notion that the number of new plays and new musicals were on a precipitous decline over the last thirty years. Today we’ve got a couple more graphs for you, bu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I read a quote recently which lamented the fact that there weren’t as many new plays on Broadway anymore. At first, my head started a-nodding in agreement. Â It’s easy to jump …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
I love a Broadway Q3 Report. Â Cuz it tells me that spring is right around the corner. And spring brings warm weather, warmer hellos from formerly frigid NYers, and higher grosses thanks t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
I first met Larry Peyton, the President of Celebrity Attractions, a Tulsa based Presenting and Producing house, in 1999, when I was the Company Manager of the National Tour of Jekyll & H…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2013
Spoiler alert: Â If you work at or run a non-profit, I’ll bet you your endowment, you’re not going to like this post. Yesterday I put in a call to a vendor I have not worked wi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
When The Book of Mormon was prepping for its first performance, a lot of folks thought the Mormon Church was prepping for a protest to take place outside the theater. Many industry insiders …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
On my birthday last August, I wrote a blog about my concern for the lack of Broadway Producers under the age of 40. Â Our research indicated that only 8% of the Producers in the Broadway L…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The Authors of The Book of Mormon were featured in a NY Times article a few weeks ago. Â If you only read Arts and Leisure then you probably missed it(,) because this 1000 worder was in th…
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