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…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2013
The best stories I’ve read, watched, and listened to have high, obvious and dramatic arcs. Â The writer(s) start you off slow, and then over the course of a number of pages or a numb…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 17, 2013: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm ANNIE $954,565 10,386 76.01% $91.91 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF $957,7…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2013
You know what everyone is saying these days, right? Â If you want to make money on The Broadway, then you gotta have a gimmick star. We here at the ol’ office don’t believe in …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
My high school didn’t have a football team. Â And when I tell people that, they’re shocked. Â ”How could you not have a football team?” Â Well, we just didnR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Who doesn’t love a little Cirque du Soleil? I remember the first time I saw “O” in Vegas (and yep, I said first time, because I’ve seen in multiple times). Â I spen…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
I was thrilled that Once won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album on Sunday night.  But it got me thinking . . . is it just a coincidence that the Tony Award winner for Best Music…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
Boston used to be one of THE tryout cities (along with New Haven and Philly) Â for big Broadway musicals. Â Shows like Funny Girl and Anything Goes all tapped their toes on a Boston stag…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2013
Back in Mid-January, I asked all of you to take a survey about yourself and this blog with the promise that, like in previous years, I’d publish the results right here where you’…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2013
There were no panels today. Â No keynotes. Â And no lectures. Why not? Â Because it was time for all of us to take what we learned over the past few days and figure out what we wanted …
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