Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer's Perspective: The most read AND the most commented on post of the month: The next gen of performers …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
I’ve got an incredibly informed group of investors who are always sending me news about ahead-of-the-curve stuff, from technology to marketing, to nifty new products. Â Â And one o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
You think a career in the theater is tough? Â You should try stand-up comedy. It’s just you on that stage. Â Nothing else. Â No sets. Â No costumes. Â Just you. Â And an au…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2014
You forgot it was World Theatre Day today, didn’t you? You didn’t even send Theatre a gift. Â Or a simple call. Â And you didn’t even call! Don’t worry, you’…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Ewww. Â Contracts. They are a necessary part of business life, but they’re not fun to negotiate, and they are not fun to prepare. Â We all got into theater because we love the thea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Back in 2009 (gulp!), I wrote this blog about how Broadway’s year end gross box office figures were wrong.  The reported numbers were just under a billion dollars. But, I argued,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Les Miserables is the Oklahoma of my generation. Or, the Show Boat for the generation before. I was 16 years old when I first saw it in Boston, MA, and had never seen anything like it …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the pre-show Cell Phone Announcement. Â I love that it gets everyone to shut their phones off (sort-of). Â But I hate that it slaps the audie…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
Stephen Sondheim inspires me in many ways. One of the more obscure ways was when I read a very cool ego-less list of songs that he entitled, “Songs I Wish I Wrote.” Â (You can …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
My inner “Magic Nerd” was resurrected last night when I paid a visit to the hallowed halls of The Magic Castle in Los Angeles. Â (Yep, it’s true, I was one of those kids …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
I first met Kathleen Raitt at a Nederlander Holiday Party back when I was a Company Manager, although I had seen her at several industry events before that. Â She was easy to spot . . . sh…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
One of those things that drives me nuts about riding the subway is the people who exit through the emergency exit doors, setting off that horrific alarm. Like we don’t have enough nois…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 14, 2014
It’s 19 degrees as I type this, as Mother Nature pumps one more blast of the Polar Vortex through the streets of New York City. To say it has been a tumultuous winter is like saying Wi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
If you watch cable in the NY area then you’ve probably seen the new commercials for START-UP NY, Governor Cuomo’s “initiative to transform SUNY campuses and other universit…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
In the early 80′s, Professional Sports Teams and Universities started looking a little younger for their future superstars. Â Scouts started heading out at middle school playgrounds,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Some of the best advice I ever received was from one of my first Broadway Investors who said, “When someone wants to give you money, take it.” That’s true when raising mone…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2014
It’s been five years since the very first Get Your Show Off The Ground seminar, and I’m thrilled to say we’ve had some fantastic success stories.  One author’s …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 7, 2014
Broadway Producers like excuses. Jewish Holidays, Daylight Savings Time, the color of shirt Obama was wearing when he spoke to Putin about the Ukraine  . . . Broadway Producers can blame …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
About a month ago, I did an article that got a lot of views about Disney Theatrical’s out-of-town tryout strategy.  And a few months before that, I did another one about their ne…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
SpotCo (one of the Big Three Broadway ad agencies) on Tuesday for a Gettin’ The Band Back Together artwork meeting, and I noticed something different . . . Where there used…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Arthur Bartow, the Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts when I was a student, said this to me when I was a freshman . . . As a theater pro, I know I’m enjoying a show when I’m no…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
There was a little brouhaha brewing last week about the recent revival of Annie that closed in January after a more than respectable 15 month run at the palace-sized Palace Theatre. W…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 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 A Broadway opening night where you actually get to…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2014
The people that work for me like to talk about theater. Â That’s why they work for me. They like to come up with new ideas and better practices in making what we all do a more sustai…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 12:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
When I first moved to New York back in the pre-cell phone era, one of the coolest things to do was to go see David Letterman live up at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (remember when he was at NBC?). I…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2014
What do you get when you take 20 thought leaders from various industries and add 400 Broadway Devotees who all want Broadway to be the best it can be? You get awesome. This Monday was our th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Three quarters down, and one more important quarter to go. But before we get to our Q4 guesses, how did Q3 fare? Â Here’s the rundown: GROSSES Gross tally so far this season is: Â …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
Remember that time I asked you all What Your Greatest Problem was? I got so many responses to that blog from people who said they were interested in producing theater, but they didn’t …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
Spring is in the air, so I’m feeling randy . . . it’s time to start hookin’ people up! Our first Collaborator Speed Date was way back in 2011, and it is one of the events t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
I’m writing this blog at 2 AM, just a few minutes after getting home from the opening night party of my latest Broadway show, Bridges of Madison County.  It was a fantastic perfo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
I was at a Denny’s a week ago (what can I say, I’m a sucker for a Grand Slam) and as usual, my laptop was on my table with my Verizon JetPack Hotspot riding sidecar. Â After my…
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