Monday, November 5, 2012
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 04, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $142,175 2,756 61.14% $51.59 ANNIE $638,7…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2012
Both are playing Broadway this season. Tyson did a few rounds with us this summer, and now, the guy “who wrote the songs” recently announced that he is coming back to Broadway fo…
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 Poor Rebecca. What happened to that girl? T…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Back in June of 2009, I blogged about the first video billboard in Times Square and predicted that they’d soon be seen up and down the Great White Way. Well, today, three years later, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2012
As if this storm wasn’t enough. Tomorrow night, box offices on and off Broadway will face another disaster. Â This one is called Halloween. Halloween is a horrible night for ticket s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
If you subscribe to this blog via email, then you get it delivered to your inbox every night at 8 PM. 8 PM. Â Get it? Â Curtain time! Except tonight up and down and on and off Broadway, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 28, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $212,257 3,678 71.39% $57.71 ANNIE $703,12…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2012
Yesterday, I chatted about the next current generation of Broadway group audiences, aka The Party Market. Today I’m going to give you five tips about those party people that will hopef…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2012
Traditional Group Sales for Broadway Shows accounts for about 9% of all Broadway sales, from what my statistical spies tell me. Â And when I say “Traditional Group Sales”, I me…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Talk to tourists about where they get tickets to Broadway shows, and a lot of them will say, “The Tickets Booth” or “That red place in the middle of Times Square” or …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Last year, fellow cage-rattlers Jim McCarthy, Damian Bazadona and I, introduced the first ever TEDx Broadway. Â We got some great speakers in a room and posed the question, “WhatR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2012
I’m in Orlando, Florida as I type this, prepping to speak at Elliott Masie’s Learning 2012 Conference with the likes of Susan Cain, Jenny Zhu and Colin Powell (!). Â What the e…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 21, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $217,806 3,803 73.82% $57.27 ANNIE $733,95…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2012
If you have a Ferrari, and there were suddenly some sputtering sounds coming from the inside of that V8, would you take it to the local mechanic down the block? Heck no, you wouldn’t. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2012
One of the most fun and educational initiatives we did on Godspell was our Creator’s Commentary. Â We got Stephen Schwartz and helmer Danny Goldstein to watch the show, and comment o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Twelve years ago, I was strolling through a video store (!) on the Upper West Side that is long since gone, and I fell in love . . . with a story. It was the story of a man who, while stroll…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2012
This blog is an unintentional Part II to yesterday’s Jay & Jimmy write-up. Â You’ll see the connection, just bear with me . . . Today I ate at Chipotle. And, one of the cur…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 14, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $230,281 3,997 77.58% $57.61 ANNIE $647,76…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 13, 2012
There is nothing cooler than people with a craving for knowledge. Remember when you were a kid, and you didn’t want to go to school? Â And now, like the people who entered this week&…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2012
Can you believe it? It’s been five freakin’ years since my very first blog post. Five years. 3,137 posts. Â And my favorite stat . . . 10,610 comments. I started this blog on m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
I had lunch with a peer recently who was in negotiations for a a couple days' space rental and was up in arms because his negotiating adversary wasn't moving from her position.
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Yesterday I examined the effects of an election season on our grosses, and today, we’re going to take a look at the micro effects of a Presidential election by comparing the average gr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Broadway Producers are the best excuse makers, er, optimists, on the planet. We can come up with a reason to justify a dip in our box office grosses faster than you can say, “paper cli…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2012
Another set of “Market Notes” (the super-informative every-so-often email from the folks at Telecharge) arrived in my inbox last week chock full of all sorts of stats and demogra…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 7, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $235,576 4,125 80.07% $57.11 ANNIE $560,928…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
The race for the White House is one of the most “dramatic” events out there. Â And if you think there are a lot of Producers on Broadway shows, imagine how many “Producer…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
I’ve been doing something at meetings for a few years now that I’ve found so rewarding to my projects and, frankly, so much fun, that I thought I’d share it with you. It…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2012
When I was a kid and used to go to Red Sox games . . . (I know, I just lost all my NY readers, to whom I say . . . bite me! Â How many more World Series rings do you want?) . . . Â ok, b…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Move over Pulitzer, there’s a new award in town, with just as fancy of a name. Ken-nedy. Jean Kennedy Smith and Columbia University (the administrators of the aforementioned “Pul…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2012
Rebecca has been on quite a ride for the past few years.  She kind of reminds me of Whitney Kropp.  She’s the girl who gets told she’s going to the big dance . . . and g…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending September 30, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $165,381 4,724 91.69% $35.01 BRING IT ON…
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