Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Hi there! I’m Ken Davenport, and I produce stuff . . . on Broadway, Off Broadway, and sometimes even a board game. And then I write about it here. Put your email address into the box on …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 02:41PMA reader pinged me last week wanting me to clarify exactly what a General Manager’s job was on a Broadway show, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to explain it . . . using o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 3, 2014
Unfortunately, in the six years of writing this blog, I’ve done more “farewell” blogs than I would like to. I’ve lost friends. I’ve lost associates. IR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, January 31, 2014
One of the things that I love about working on Broadway, is that every day you wake up . . . and you never know what exciting opportunity may await you in your inbox. Yesterday, I got an off…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, January 30, 2014
Sometimes I think of the different corners of the theatrical world . . . Broadway, Chicago, The West End . . . like baseball teams in a giant theatrical league. We’re all in this tog…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
If you’re a Producer or a General Manager and you reach out to an agent to hire an actor, a director or any member of a creative team, you might often hear this comment after your firs…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
Very few individuals can cross the bridge from Broadway to Hollywood and back again. And over the weekend, we lost one of the best travelers there ever was. Michael Filerman, the TV produc…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, January 27, 2014
They say the American Dream is to own a house. Well, I’ve had the same dream for a while. But as you know, on Broadway and Off Broadway, we define house just a little differently. A …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, January 24, 2014
It only makes sense that I’d talk about Frozen during this Polar Vortex sequel we’re experiencing in the city right now. Forget the hot chocolate, if you wanna warm yourself up,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, January 23, 2014
Nope, this blog isn’t about what I said to the cab driver that almost ran me over in the snow yesterday. Nope. This blog is about you. I started this blog about producing theater six y…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
If you think The Return of the Polar Vortex is having a cooling effect on Broadway Box Office, there could be an even bigger storm a brewin’ that’s set to arrive in two weeks. Of…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
As much as I hate to admit it, Producers have something in common with Politicians. So do CEOs, Presidents of Companies, and anyone who runs a business, whether that business has one emplo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, January 20, 2014
I haven’t been to Angus in a while, but last time I went in, I heard this little gem of a convo from two businessmen who were not in the business of Broadway. And you know me, I love…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, January 16, 2014
You all know The Swami of Statistics, right? You remember him? He’s the dude at The Shubert Org with the keys to all the Broadway ticketing data for the last several, oh, decades! …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
Winter sucks. There, I said it. Winter sucks so much that I’m trying to get a petition going to move Broadway to the West Coast, or the South East Coast, or to Bora Bora. Any one o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, January 13, 2014
Last Friday, I published the results of the first ever Broadway Investor survey. If you haven’t seen it yet, click here. Honestly, I wasn’t all that shocked with the results. �…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, January 10, 2014
Back in October last year, we launched the very first Broadway Investor survey, with the sole goal of trying to determine just who, who, who is the Broadway Investor (click here to read the …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:30AMThursday, January 9, 2014
The Off Broadway Alliance is at it again. I’m constantly being asked by consulting clients and seminar participants, “How do I get a producer for my play/musical/one-man-whatev…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
Got a guess? What Broadway show grossed the most dollars (not necessarily bodies, right?) over the past 52 weeks? Ready for the answer? Don’t scroll down until you’ve got one. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, 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 be…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, 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. Apples, oranges, kiwis…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, 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 11:00AMThursday, January 2, 2014
Fact: 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 movi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, 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 11:00AMAt 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? It’s my favorite post of the year (don’t te…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMTime for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective: The most read post of the month: A Few of my Favorite Things from NBC’s Live Soun…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AMTuesday, December 31, 2013
That’s it, my friends, put 2013 in the record books. Another 525,600 minutes have passed us by. How did Broadway measure a year in its life? Every year I do just that . . . and tak…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, 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 11:00AMFriday, 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 recorded …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, December 26, 2013
. . . 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 gamble,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, 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 
