Wednesday, April 8, 2015
You know what this past Monday was? That’s right . . . it was opening day for the 2015 Major League Baseball season. Everywhere I went, people were talking about it. I woke up to DJ…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
If you fell for my April Fools’ joke last week, you weren’t the only one. I got tons of emails, tweets and slaps on the back for announcing I was building a Broadway theater fro…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 6, 2015
I can’t draw. I can’t decorate. And the bird house I built in shop class was only valuable for the air rights. So I’m in serious awe of all designers. But it’s …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 3, 2015
More than half my consulting clients are writers. At each of our sessions, I give them all three action items to help them get their show to the next “stage” of development. And…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 2, 2015
You gave me an idea. While typing up my last Get Your Show Off The Ground takeaway blog, I thought . . . since GYSOTG was my first and is still my most popular seminar, why not take this s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
I’ve written about the theater crunch on Broadway a bunch of times . . . and I got to thinking the other day, it’s time for me to stop writing about it and start doing something…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Hold on to your offering documents, people, because raising money for businesses, including Broadway shows, just got easier. Several years (!) after Congress passed the JOBS Act, the SEC fi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 30, 2015
What I love about Broadway is that there is no one path to becoming a Producer. Everyone who gets their name above the title comes at it from their own unique angle. We’ve got Pres…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSaturday, March 28, 2015
There have been quite a few faux-historical mashups in our recent theatrical past, like the popular Off Broadway fair Freud’s Last Session, which put C.S. Lewis and Freud in the same…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, March 27, 2015
Since I started blogging six years ago, I’ve received countless emails from folks around the world asking for information about Broadway budgets. “Can I see one?” “Ho…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
The first lesson I learned from Mrs. Beasley, my Kindergarten teacher, was to share. It wasn’t easy, but I did it. And when I shared, people shared with me. And we both were happy.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
Are you watching Shark Tank? I love it. You’ve got those big billionaires hearing pitches from up and coming entrepreneurs. Big money and bigger dreams are on the line. It’s grea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 23, 2015
You know what I love about our industry? Of the eight or so Broadway General Managers that GM 99% of all Broadway shows, at least half of them are women. That’s right, the top of …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, March 20, 2015
I try to remain super positive about our lovely little industry, even when things make me go “Ummmm?” I had one of those, “Ok, Ken, stay positive. Stay positive. No cra…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Four times a year, I get a group of super passionate peeps in a room, listen to what they are struggling with, and then I kickstart their shows. It’s the first seminar I ever taught,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
Studying demographics is like studying the ingredients in your food. You want know what’s in there, so you can make sure it’s gonna keep you healthy for a long time to come. T…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 16, 2015
There have been a ton of Broadway musical to movie adaptations over the years . . . from Chicago to Hairspray to Rent to Into the Woods. But there have been hardly any Off Broadway mu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, March 13, 2015
Did you even know there are two Telecharge websites out there? There are. One is Telecharge.com, the one you know and love. The other, formerly known as BroadwayOffers.com, has now been re…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, March 12, 2015
There’s an interesting controversy brewing on the left coast, and it’s not about whether there should be a Sharknado III. No, this one is actually about theater. Yep, they not …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
I haven’t thrown up since 1984. Seriously, I’m talking 31 years without as much as a dry heave. And that’s an extra special accomplishment when you consider the tons of b…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 9, 2015
It wasn’t too long ago that the most buzzed phrase around the biz was “The future of advertising is online.” Broadway (and the rest of the world) got swept up in the dig…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, March 6, 2015
Broadway used to own Times Square. Back in the day, if you wanted live entertainment (other than a few seedy strip clubs or the crazy homeless guy on the corner of 47th that talked about h…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, March 5, 2015
It has been over a week since TEDxBroadway 2015, but the inspiring words of the color-outside-the-lines speakers are still whispering in my ears as I tackle my day-to-day tasks in this color…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
They’re calling it “The Dress That Broke The Internet.” I’m talking of course about that blue and black dress . . . or is it gold and white . . . wait, hold on, it…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
The end of the 3rd quarter is my favorite. First, it means that spring is around the corner. And second, it signifies the beginning of our “kick” toward the end of the year. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, March 2, 2015
You probably think you know what theater owners do. It’s in their moniker – they just own theaters, right? So all they do is sit atop their perch and decide what shows to let o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 26, 2015
There has been a historical amount of buzz about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s The Hamilton Mixtape (the original title) since . . . well, since he first told people he was writing it! Mae…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
They say a billion people watched the Academy Awards. And I was one of them. By contrast, our little engine that could of an awards show, the Tony Awards, gets an audience of 7 million. Ju…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 23, 2015
Yes, my blog and subsequent podcast is called The Producer’s Perspective. And yes, as crazy as it sounds, I haven’t had a Broadway Producer on the podcast! Until now! And how fit…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, February 20, 2015
I always report on the end of year figures for Broadway, and even give you the quarterly reports as well (stay tuned for next week’s 3rd Quarter results, which I expect to be fascinat…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 19, 2015
I don’t know about you, but it feels like everywhere I look this Broadway season, someone is talking with a British accent. We’ve got Curious Incident and Queen Elizabeth and tha…
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