Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Well, aren’t ticket exchanges a hot topic! First I posted this post-Xmas blog about Broadway return policies (or lack thereof), and how I’m a proponent of having our policies …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
One of my favorite gifts to get folks around the holidays is a “something”-of-the-month club. The original of-the-month club was something fruit related. Â Apples, oranges, kiw…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2014
Snow is a beautiful thing . . . until you realize the effect it has on business. Broadway is in the middle of its first big snowstorm this season, and as usual, it’s causing a whole bu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2014
Fact: Â Times Square would not look the way it does today without Disney. When I first moved to the city in the early 90s, 42nd Street was still a disaster of crack addicts and run down mo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2014
It’s a New Year. It’s a new start. It’s a fresh beginning. Don’t dwell on what didn’t go right in 2013 . . . or what you failed to write in 2013 . . . focus on …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]At the tail end of every year, I write a blog with a list of the Top 10 Most Popular Posts of the Year. And you wanna know a secret? Â It’s my favorite post of the year (don’t …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[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 A Few of my Favorite Things from NBC's Live Sound …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2013
That’s it, my friends, put 2013 in the record books. Â Another 525,600 minutes have passed us by. Â How did Broadway measure a year in its life? Every year I do just that . . . and…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2013
Dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr-dr . . . In case you couldn’t figure it out, that was NOT a call for a doctor, but rather an e-drum roll, because it’s time to announce the…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2013
Remember that time I debuted my new musical Gettin’ The Band Back Together at George Street Playhouse this past fall? Well, a month ago, I got the cast back together and we recor…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2013
. . . Â people were returning gifts left and right . . . and . . . and . . . I can’t think of a good rhyme for stores. Just about every industry out there plays the return-game gambl…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Here’s a quote to put under your tree today: Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
After the success of The Sound of Music, I predicted that NBC would broadcast another live musical in 2014.  And wouldn’t you know it, the next day, they announced that they woul…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2013
They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery. I disagree. Mocking is the greatest form of flattery. The incredible story of NBC’s The Sound of Music continued last week when …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2013
When I say Olive Garden what do you think of . . . For me? Â It’s unlimited salad and breadsticks. Â That salad just keeps coming and coming. Â There ain’t no bottom of tha…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Millions of dollars go into making a Broadway show. Â And designers and directors pride themselves on making sure everything that appears on that stage is juuuuuust right, which means uniq…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2013
It’s time to crown a new Producer of the year! Every year around this time, I talk to a group of Broadway Insiders to get their thoughts on which Broadway Producers crushed it in the p…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
I’d bet that next to The Godfather, Will Ferrell’s Anchorman may be one of the most quoted movies of all time.  And the super highly anticipated sequel, Anchorman …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 13, 2013
I’m going to admit something. Even though we’ve done six Socials now, every year, before the doors open, I panic. Â Will people come? Â Will people get along? Â Will it be …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2013
So, right after my blog about NBC’s Sound of Music went live, in which I predicted NBC would broadcast another Broadway musical in 2014, the network announced that it would do ju…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
I’ve never purchased tickets through StubHub. Â But I’ve been thinking about them a lot lately (it was their advertising campaign that wormed its way into my brain – like…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
In case you haven’t checked the calendar lately, you already missed Hannukah, and Christmas (and the big ol’ Broadway business that comes with it) is only 14 days away! If you…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
I was walking down Broadway yesterday, amidst the throngs of tourists, and I overhead one 40-something year old dude from somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon line ask his buddy, “Hey, d…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
You know your show is a phenom when Funny or Die makes fun of it. Check out this awesome vid about Chicago starring a former Taxi star, Marilu Henner – who takes a nice self-depr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
So how many did we sell? Â Are you ready? Â Drumroll please . . . The answer is . . . I have no idea. Nor do I have any idea how many tickets we sold on Cyber Monday. I do know how the r…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Pop . . . pop . . . pop. What’s that you hear? Â Is it the sound of my old school favorite snack, Jiffy Pop Popcorn? Unfortunately not. It’s the sound of the newest fad in reta…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Site specific and environmental theater has always been a “thing.”  (I was one of the few that got to see Jonathan “Rent” Larson’s site specific JP Morgan…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
Some people know how to try to ruin a Thanksgiving. If you were too busy eating and shopping and eating again to have heard about the Twitter stir caused by the performance of my show,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2013
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 I did something illegal yesterday. . . The most com…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2013
Crowdfunding continues to be one of the biggest buzzwords of the business world, and thanks to the JOBS act, it’s going to get even bigger (if the SEC ever gets around to finalizing th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2013
Gobble, gobble yo. Â It’s Thanksgiving on The Broadway! (For full effect, say that last sentence out loud and put the emphasis on the “way”!) It’s so easy to pick a…
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