Friday, 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…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Back in the day, the theater owners were some of the most prolific Producers on Broadway. They produced in part by necessity . . . if their theaters were dark and they needed a booking, th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Oh, Brian. You’re so dramatic. You were shot down. You got dysentery. You saved puppies. (I mean, puppies, Brian? You brought sweet, innocent little puppies into your stories?) Ok, true or…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 16, 2015
Everyone on the commercial side of the industry thinks the non-profits have it so easy. They can take donations, stars will work for scale, and so on. I had a feeling there was another s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSaturday, February 14, 2015
Imagine a group of Broadway Avengers! The ability to belt to a high C! To do a triple time step while performing on a raked stage and rapping a Lin-Manuel Miranda tune! To produce musica…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, February 13, 2015
Like all of my Fun on a (Freezing) Friday blogs, this one will incite a few chuckles, for sure. But what’s great about the video you’re about to see is that it’s a piece …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 12, 2015
If you read the Arts & Leisure section of the NY Times in print then you may have caught a full page ad for the upcoming Broadway musical, The Visit. And if you looked closely at those n…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Day 2 of the conference started out with a mouse sighting. Yep, Disney was in the house. But not the Disney you think. This AM we got a talk from Andy Bird, Chairman of Walt Disney Interna…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
In case you missed my tweet from yesterday AM, I’m currently south of the Snow Line in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for the 2015 Biennial Broadway League Conference. The biennial conf…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 9, 2015
There’s a scene in the Howard Stern movie Private Parts where a Producer exclaims that while fans of Howard Stern listen to each show for a good amount of time, the people who hate …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, February 6, 2015
If you asked Producers in town what they’d ask for if the genie from Aladdin came down and granted them three wishes, they’d probably say . . . lower stagehand costs, no discount…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 5, 2015
One of the most fun stocking stuffers I got this year was one of those Money Mazes. Don’t know what I’m talking about? The Money Maze is a 3D cube with a marble inside. Get tha…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Well, it took awhile. Back in 2011, I blogged about the “con” revolution. You know, ComicCon, EmeraldCityCon, DragonCon, ILikeHungarianCabinetMakingCon, and so on. With all t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
It’s back!!! After a three year hiatus, we have revived my Broadway fantasy game “Will It Recoup?” just in time for the spring season. What you say? You don’t kno…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 2, 2015
Sure you can study marketing in school. You can even read books about it like I do. But there’s really only one way to master Broadway marketing, and that’s to do it. And a l…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, January 30, 2015
If you thought yesterday’s blog was a little nerdified, wait until you hear about this. Every year, there’s this massive tech festival in Vegas called the Consumer Electronics Sh…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, January 29, 2015
Nerd alert! I like chess. In fact, there was a time when I was a member of the Manhattan Chess Club. I even took lessons from this guy, who at one point in his incredible career beat Bobby…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
I woke up this morning half hoping to see mountains of snow in the streets, and people cross country skiing down 5th Avenue (I’ve seen that twice before in my twenty plus years in the …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
You’ve worked so hard advertising your show, and then wham-bam-thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another, in comes Mother Nature to remind you who’s the boss. As you probably know, Broadw…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, January 26, 2015
I first met Terrence McNally when I was the Associate Company Manager on Ragtime, although I felt like I had known him for years before. There’s just something about his work . . . …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, January 23, 2015
Like it or not, reviews matter. And if you’re interested in the business of Broadway (which I gotta assume you are), then knowing what the reviewers say about all the shows on Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, January 22, 2015
They beat me to it. I’ve been brainstorming a way to do a live Broadway Shark Tank, and were just getting ready to firm up the details, when, leave it to those crafty folks over at the…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
Politics is one of the greatest stages in the world. And every year, we see one helluva show when the President addresses Congress and The Country World with his State of the Union address…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
Made ya look, didn’t it? The dog in the photo on this blog, artistically frozen in mid walk, stands outside the 72nd Street Subway Station, making passerbys (like this producer-blogger…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, January 19, 2015
I’m one of the fortunate folks who have had the pleasure of working for Broadway GM and Executive Producer Nina Lannan, when I held the Company Manager post on Thoroughly Modern Milli…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, January 16, 2015
I’m going to tickle your toes with a little tease right now . . . I just recorded Episode #4 of my Podcast with the living legend that is Terrence McNally, and when it hits the web-wav…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, January 15, 2015
. . . but it wasn’t all me. Almost a year ago, I posted a ranty blog about those annoying alarms on subway emergency doors that never alerted anyone of an emergency. “Enforce …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Off Broadway is dead. I’ve heard that from so many people in the last five years (irony in my use of that phrase, intended). And the good news is that it’s not dead. Is it sick?…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
They got the headline wrong. At the tail end of last year, Playbill posted an article entitled “Spring 2015 Off Broadway Preview,” which you can read here. If I was the editor of…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM 
