Sunday, June 15, 2014
"The Tonys are rigged."
I've heard that phrase uttered many times by a bunch of my producing peers. Of course, I've usually heard it on Tony night, a couple hours after the last winners …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2014
Post Tony Fallout used to mean which shows would close after the Producers did their analyses of their Monday sales, with many praying for bumps from the telecast before, or a ton of awards …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2014
In case you missed it, a show closed recently without ever having opened. Back before all the Tony Award hoopla, the Broadway bound production of Titanic hit an iceberg.  (Ironicall…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Okey dokey smokey, the accounting firm of the Davenport Theatrical Interns has finished their audit of our Tony Pool entries and they have selected a winner. But first, How did I do? Eh. I m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Were you inspired by the Tonys? Â Did it make you want to get out and audition for something? Â Produce something? Or . . . drumroll please . . . write something? Have we got that someth…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
Well, that’s it. Â Put a fork in the 2013-14 season, because she is done. Â Now that the 2014 Tony Awards have been dished out, it’s time for everyone in the industry to dish…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2014
The Friday before the Tony Awards. It’s the last chance for water cooler talk about who will win, until Monday morning when the cooler chitter chatter will be all about who won . . . a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2014
"Can you repeat that?" I asked, even though I had heard the question perfectly clear. "What's the biggest mistake a Producer or an Entrepreneur can make?" I think the reason I didn't want to…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
A bunch of years ago I looked into commissioning a playwright to write a backstage comedy about the business of Broadway. More specifically,  I wanted this play set at a Broadway ad me…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
It’s inevitable. When you have a set of awards that precede a bigger set of awards, people start asking . . . “Does the winner of the first mean that they are a shoe-in for the s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
Boom. That sound you heard was the massive amount of monetary impact Broadway has on the New York City economy. The latest financial ramification report was released last week by the Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2014
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 And the nominees for the 1st annual Ghostlight Awa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
If you asked a bunch of Broadway Producers why they got into the theater business, you’d hear a long litany of responses . . . and you know what wouldn’t be anywhere on that list…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2014
I don’t have them. But, I know some people that do. And those secret-holders are gonna be featured on a panel this coming Sunday, June 1st, sponsored by our good ol’ friends at t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
To quote Queen, “Another one bites the dust! Â And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust!” The one I’m referring to, of course, is the Broadw…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Sweet Jumpin’ You-Know-Who! We got almost four thousand votes for the first annual Ghostlight Awards! I just love it.  It just shows how much support and love there is for those …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 26, 2014
I try to come up with ideas for blogs . . . well, I try to come up with them all the time. Â And I have what I think are some good ones lined up for the next week or so (including one abou…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2014
The London revival of Miss Saigon opened this past Wednesday night. 24 hours later, Producer Cameron Mackintosh announced that it had already recouped. I mean, wowza. I’ve been a pa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
I’m predicting a new Law & Order SVU-like spin-off. Â Law & Order: Â CCU (Cyber Crimes Unit). One of their first “ripped from the headlines” plots would be this…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Yesterday’s blog, as well as my acceptance speech for last year’s Broadway.com Audience Award for Macbeth, was about paying respect to those above-the-title producers out t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2014
First there was last year’s NY Times article about the rising cost of the Tony Award (and I’m not talking about how expensive it is to produce a show that wins a Tony Award or th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
Ok, so . . . I had a feeling the Ghostlight Awards would be popular (a job of a producer is to do things that they think are going to be popular, of course), but I had no flippin’ idea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2014
Yesterday, I talked about how I was inspired by a comment from a social media panel that discussed the importance of speed in modern marketing, especially in terms of social media. And wh…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2014
One of Tuesday more fascinating panels at the Broadway League Conference was one entitled, Equip Your Army; Why Content is King, and featured a troop of social media experts from YouTube,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Yesterday was the very first day of the annual Broadway League Spring Road Conference, when all the members of the Broadway League are invited to NYC to share in three days of seminars and s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story was a big hit.  It ran 732 performances. Music Man, which bested it for the Tony Award, ran 1,375 performances. The original…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
Recent research reports indicate that a whopping 37 million people in the US speak Spanish in the home, making this Latino-language the most spoken non-English language in this country, by m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2014
Sometimes I think choosing what to put in your bio for a new show can be more stressful than the opening itself!  Do you include that Off Off Broadway show?  Do you thank your paren…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
One of my readers is a Medium. No, I’m not talking about his t-shirt size. Â I mean, he hears the voices of Dead People. Â And after last week’s blog about Adaptations (which…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Everyone knows that January/February and back-to-school September are tough times for Broadway box offices.  When I’m producing a show, I call these traditional sales slump perio…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Ok, it’s time to get past the talk of who was nominated and who wasn’t nominated and how there really should have been five nominees for Best Musical (couldn’t resist, sorr…
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