Sunday, December 11, 2011
If we were playing Will It Recoup this Fall, here's a show I would have put my money on. Samuel Jackson, Angela Bassett . . . and the biggest star . . . Martin Luther King! The Mountaintop o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2011
I stumbled on an old book about Mssrs Rodgers and Hammerstein today, and found a chapter about the trials and tribulations of getting Oklahoma! off the ground. It was a tough one to finance,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2011
Until they figure out how to make megabytes look pretty on a shelf, books will never go out of style. It might be cooler, cheaper and easier to read a blog on a computer, but it ain't tangib…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Whenever something is scarce and has value, there will always be a way for resellers to profit from it. Diamonds, Elvis Presley Autographed Toilet Seats, and yes, theater tickets. That prefa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Every few months or so, someone rings the death knell for Broadway, and for theater in general. Antiquated, archaic . . . and a few other "A" words are bandied about by those who t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2011
As I announced back in September, our final reading of the year has international ancestry. Martha, Marina, was written by Ana-Maria Bamberger of Bucharest and has quite a life overseas, whe…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 4, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $447,102 4,458 60.1…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2011
There is a lot I could tell you about Burning, the new play by Thomas Bradshaw that is premiering at The New Group right now. But I think this says it all . . . WARNING: Explicit Material- n…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2011
A study was just released in the UK that just proved what you and I already knew . . . going to the theater actually makes you happier. Yep, you can read all about it here, but according to …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2011
Well, well, well, would you look at this! The House of Reps down in DC passed a bill recently that's near and dear to my heart called the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. In what is being…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Hey, readers, here is your monthly recap of what posts you were the most engaged with over the past 30 days. The most read post of the month: Extra! Extra! Read all about it . . . The most c…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2011
If you're a basketball fan, you've been foaming at the mouth and ornery to everyone you know for the past couple o' months, as you've suffered through B-Ball withdrawal thanks to the lockout…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 29, 2011
26 Weeks down. 26 to go. The 2011-12 Broadway season is half over and already people are wondering . . . will we shatter another sales record? Well, so far, so good. The first 26 weeks of th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2011
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 27, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $313,879 5,136 69.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 04:48PM[SHARE]I don't watch that much TV anymore. And none of it is live. What I do is pick a word-of-mouth recommended series available to watch instantly on Netflix and watch a few episodes a week while…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 27, 2011
Another week, another Broadway musical! Special thanks to the Producers of Bonnie & Clyde, the sponsors of this week's Sunday Giveaway. One of you will get two free tickets to see B&…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2011
It's 12:38 AM as I type. We're 38 minutes into Black Friday, and I know a bunch of people at brick and mortar stores right this very second. In the middle of dessert at the Thanksgiving dinn…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 24, 2011
There's a whole bunch of things about the theater industry that I wish were a whole lot . . . different. But despite all that, on a day like Thanksgiving, it's important to remember that whi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Advertising isn't about impressions. It's about conversions. Someone could offer me a free 1,000,000 piece direct mail for Godspell to citizens in Sri Lanka and it would be just about worthl…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2011
As has become the custom here at TPP, here is a list of just five of the takeaways from this past weekend's Get Your Show Off The Ground Seminar. Sending out unsolicited scripts is like an a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2011
Confucius say, "Anything that can be done big, can be done small." Ok, he didn't really say that, but it doesn't make it any less true. Case in point. When big Broadway shows "…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 20, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $358,956 4,701 74.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2011
It's been called "one of the greatest musicals never to play New York" . . . and now, Kander and Ebb's The Visit, starring Chita Rivera and John Cullum, will be presented in the ci…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
Save the date, PPers, it's time for the Producer's Perspective offline event of the year, the Producer's Perspective social. (insert sound of "whoop whoop" here) Don't know what th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2011
One of the greatest gifts Twitter has given brands is the ability to electronically eavesdrop on conversations about their products. "@XXX airlines sucks! Waited for three hours on tarm…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Yep. Finish it with me . . . Why not a play club . . . or a musical club. Right? My mission as a theater professional is to amplify the conversation about the theater. More people talking ab…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sure you know about WOM, but do you know about WOMMA? WOMMA is the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (yep - if it exists, there's probably an organization to support it - and if there isn'…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2011
Veteran's Day was this past weekend, and it had me singing Madonna in the shower this morning. If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 13, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $748,355 7,390 90.03% $101.27 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSI…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2011
What's this? A brand new musical opening on Broadway this Fall without star casting and that isn't based on a movie or a superhero? Ok, that's not exactly true. Lysistrata may be one of the …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 12, 2011
To buy tickets to Private Lives on Broadway click the link below: BUY PRIVATE LIVES TICKETS! - - - - - - - - - - Here is the official information for Private Lives on Broadway: About Private…
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