Friday, July 20, 2012
Every time we post about a semimar, I get a bunch of emails asking if we ever plan on doing them online, in, you know, one of them there fancy webinar-type things. And, for months now, IR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
When I first started blogging almost 5 (!) years ago, I listened to the advice of other bloggers and kept my “allow comments” button turned off. Â I was told that I would get s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Disney has had a great run on Broadway . . . they’ve produced seven shows, and five have (or will) recoup (I’m putting Newsies in the win column already). Â That’s a 71.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Sing along with me! “. . . but you can’t stay here!” If you work in the theater, then odds are you’ve closed down a few bars late at night/early in the am and heard t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
Some people think Michael Riedel is only good for gossip. Not so, not so! Last week, Riedel’s column about the soon-to-be-made-for-walking Kinky Boots featured a gem of a quote f…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending July 15, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 488,099 7,184 76.88 67.94 BRING IT ON THE MUS…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
I was in a sports bar the other day (yes, eating wings), and looked up at one of the 57 large screen TVs to notice a whole bunch of very tall men playing basketball on a very small court. Co…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
I love a nice summer lobster roll. Â It must be my ‘wicked’ New Englandish roots. The other day, I found myself at a lobster roll place (can’t really call them restaurant…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
It has been almost a decade since the movie musical came back in fashion, thanks to Rob Marshall’s Oscar Winning Chicago in 2003.  We’ve finally shed our geek status with H…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Martin “Marty” Pakledinaz, one of the Broadway’s best costume designers, passed away on Sunday night at the all too early age of 58. How good was he? Â Well, in the last …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
Know who David K Sweet it? It's me. Â Ken. Â David K Sweet is the pseudonym I just made up . . . when I realized that no one in the theater really uses pseudonyms. What do you think?
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 2012
Want to know what really gets my engine going? 1. Â Data. 2. When experts from outside of our industry analyze our data. Ohhhh yeah. Â Just typing that gets me all a-tingley. So imagine …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
If it feels like I just wrote one of these posts, it’s because I did. It hasn’t even been nine months since the last New York Musical Theatre Festival, and here we are again, rea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2012
I’ve written about adaptations a bunch of times on this blog, including this entry which detailed the rise of movie-based musicals over the past 30 years (from 6% to 19% of new musical…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
I was strolling through Saks on a weak weekend for Broadway tickets recently, and I noticed something interesting . . . there was hardly anyone in the store shopping for clothes, just like t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending July 1, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $349,304 5,237 56.05% $66.70 ANYTHING GOES $50…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2012
We lost Robin Gibb, one of the founding brothers of the iconic pop group The Bee Gees, over a month ago. Â Obviously their music will live on for decades to come . Â . . but the words th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
Ok, so we don’t have the Beacon Theatre, or Neil Patrick Harris hosting, or even a performance from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship (!) . . . but this is still pretty exciting, isn’…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
We so want it to work. Â But it just never, ever does. Ok, here’s the back story: JC Penney is sucking sales wind. Â JC Penney hires formed Apple retail chief Ron Johnson as CEO to…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Good question. There’s been a lot of buzz about the recently signed JOBS Act and just what all the jargon and legalese in its many pages means to us out here pounding the pavement look…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
Ahhhh, irony, thy name is young people. At 9 out of 10 ad meetings I attend, the topic of getting more young people always comes up. Â And despite many concentrated and intelligent efforts…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
Can you tell that I can’t get enough of the Tony Awards? The telecast and all of its post-appearance residue are keeping me up at night lately. Â It’ll probably take weeks for …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
I have a travel outfit. I sleep on planes (sometimes more than I do at home), so I snuggle up in a pair of cozy track pants, the softest and loosest long sleeve shirt I can find, and a sweat…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Talk about a Broadway buzz kill. After last year’s raging success of a Tony show (everyone was so nervous about taking the show from Radio City to The Beacon – and then they real…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
Anecdotal evidence (aka Water Cooler and Twitter talk) told me that overall people were pleased with this performance packed Tony Awards telecast, but maybe not as much as last year. Â But…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2012
You couldn’t sleep last night, could you? You were on edge with anticipation . . . who will be nominated for the first ever Broadway Marketing Awards? Â Will it be your favorite show…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
Maybe I’ve still got Award Fever, but as I was watching the Tonys on Sunday I couldn’t help but think . . . we’ve got lots of Awards from lots of different organizations fo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Producing shows can be one of the most rewarding professions on the planet. Â Watching audience members smile and laugh and cry as they take in a show that you helped put together is just …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
There were more shockers in this year’s Tonys than in Next to Normal! Â (Get it?) And the number of those surprises affected all of our scores. In last year’s Tony Pool, we had…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
The curtain has come down on yet another Broadway season. That sound you hear in the distance is the opening of many a Fire Island and Hampton home as the industry gets ready to hibernat…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending June 10, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $299,235 4,760 50.94% $62.86 ANYTHING GOES $4…
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