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 that…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, May 26, 2014
I try to come up with ideas for blogs . . . well, I try to come up with them all the time. And I have what I think are some good ones lined up for the next week or so (including one about …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, 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 part…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 22, 2014
I’m predicting a new Law & Order SVU-like spin-off. Law & Order: CCU (Cyber Crimes Unit). One of their first “ripped from the headlines” plots would be this wee…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, 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 there…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, 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 11:00AMMonday, 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 11:00AMFriday, 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 whil…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, 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, G…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, 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 11:00AMTuesday, 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 My F…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, 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 11:00AMFriday, 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 parents? …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 8, 2014
One of my readers is a Medium. No, I’m not talking about his t-shirt size. I mean, he hears the voices of Dead People. And after last week’s blog about Adaptations (which got…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, 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 periods &…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, May 5, 2014
Business Rule #679: If your competition does something successfully, do something similar. It’s not the most original business axiom in the book, (I’d rather be a business lead…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, May 2, 2014
This blog is all about trying to crack the Broadway code. What can we do to increase our odds of success? Research? New economic models? Stars? All of that analysis is essential, esp…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 1, 2014
One of my more popular blogs over the years was this ol’ chestnut from back in 2008 (!) about adaptations on Broadway, and specifically the number of movies being turned into musicals.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTime for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective: The most read post of the month: Announcing the first ever Ghostlight Awards – fo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
There’s a point in almost every entrepreneur and artist’s life when they feel stuck. You know what I’m taking about, don’t you? You’re at a point in your ca…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Three things you can count on: death, taxes, and the Tony Award Nominations being all over the map. As usual, this morning’s noms caused the usual amount of jumping up and down, cry…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHere are this year’s Tony Award nominations: Best Play Act One All The Way Casa Valentina Mothers and Sons Outside Mullingar Best Musical After Midnight Aladdin Beautiful – The Car…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 09:14AMMonday, April 28, 2014
I’ve been around for some nervous awards seasons, but nothing tops this one. The sheer volume of competition this year has made the nomination announcements seem like the actual awar…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 25, 2014
In a new advertisement, uh I mean article, in the Hollywood Reporter, the legendary music producer Clive Davis took the new Broadway musicals of the last couple of decades to task in an effo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHere are this year’s Drama Desk Award nominations: Outstanding Play Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club Steven Levenson, Core Values Conor McPherson, The Night Alive Richard Nelson, Reg…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThursday, April 24, 2014
A few years ago, around Halloween, pop-up costume stores starting appearing in empty street-level shops, doing a ton of biz in a short period of time. The retailer was happy. The landlor…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
I’m jealous of the West End. They’ve got lower costs for labor, crowdfunding, and they let you eat ice cream in your seats. And they have also gotten their hands on some very pop…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Some of you out there probably read the subject of this blog and thought, “Only 3?” And you’re right, I could probably write another 4,000 posts on my issues with the stat…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHere are this year’s Outer Critics Circle Award nominations: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY Act One Casa Valentina All The Way Outside Mullingar The Realistic Joneses OUTSTANDING NEW BR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMMonday, April 21, 2014
There is a simple rule in the research industry: Never ask for feedback, unless you’re prepared to do something with the results. As you all know, I’m a huge fan of surveys and f…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM 
