Tuesday, August 27, 2013
I owe you an apology. Because this blog, and its related seminar, is at least a year in the making. Ever since I started teaching my Get Your Show Off The Ground and Broadway Investing 101 S…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, August 26, 2013
I was reading a small town newspaper (!) over the weekend, and I flipped through the arts “corner” (It probably used to be called a section, but no longer) to see if there were a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, August 23, 2013
I love it when one of our own gets a bigger stage and grabs the world’s attention. You know, like Matt Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson, and most recently, Godspell‘s own Uzo Aduba f…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, August 22, 2013
I got one of those mass emails the other day that thankfully slipped through my spam filters and got me thinking. The subject? ”Life 100 Years Ago . . .” The email included f…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
The Broadway community is an incredibly tight knit family, albeit a little dysfunctional. We’re all pulling for each other, because deep down the theater, any theater, whether itR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
I got an email from my high school English teacher last week asking if I could help a group of students she knew get a backstage tour at a Broadway show. She didn’t ask me which show t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, August 19, 2013
This should be American Idol‘s summer vacation. They just crowned the winner of season 12 a couple of months ago. And Season 13, with some new celebrity judge du jour (I’m ho…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, August 16, 2013
We’re a game-playing society . . . and I’m not just talking about the psychological ones agents try to play on producers when negotiating contracts. Everything’s more fun w…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, August 15, 2013
A great new study was released on Tuesday from ShareThis that “provides insights into the relationship between online sharing of movie related content and movie ticket purchases.”…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
I enrolled in a mini-golf school over the weekend, which consisted of several Tiger-wannabes like me and an old touring pro who could have taught Tiger a thing or two himself. All of us wann…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
I went to see a show the other night and found myself sitting right next to an old fuddy-duddy (I do realize that by using the term “fuddy-duddy,” I am probably now one myself). …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Shirley Herz, one of the “founders” of theatrical press, passed away on Sunday. What do I mean by “founders?” Well, although the theater is thousands of years old, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, August 9, 2013
There’s some VHS footage of me out there somewhere performing in my middle school musical. I’ve been trying to track it down and destroy it for years. It involves me wearing …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, August 8, 2013
In yesterday’s blog, I hinted that I was going to reveal one of my “rules” of writing today, so here goes. You’ve probably heard descriptions of basic plot structure …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
It’s August in NYC, which means stanky subway platforms, throngs of tourists, and the New York International Theater Festival! And if you’re an obsessive, compulsive theatergoer …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Anyone else read the NY Times article this past Sunday about the influx of Movie Studios on Broadway? You know, the one that said Wicked would be Universal’s most successful proper…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, August 5, 2013
On Saturday, I hinted at an idea I had for the Cabaret sub-culture of New York City. You ready for it? Now that I’ve built it up like an Edsel, I’m certain to disappoint (remem…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, August 2, 2013
I walked into an unfamiliar Times Square deli last week on one of those cook-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk days and ordered up my usual can of Coke. The deli-keep said, “That’s $1.75.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, August 1, 2013
One month ago, I wrote about the lesson I learned from a car salesman on how to solicit Broadway investments. Well, yesterday I found myself car shopping once again, right here on the isle…
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: 5 Shows that Stand Out at the NYMF – 2013 The…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Check out this fascinating article on psfk.com about how our entertainment ADD is not only being addressed by content creators, it is being celebrated. Here’s the jist: Admit it. Whe…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
First, yes, I’ll admit, the title of this blog sounds a little creepy. But it’ll make sense. I hope. If you love Broadway show tunes, then I bet you have a soft spot in your he…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, July 29, 2013
Negotiations in the theater shouldn’t take very long. Jobs aren’t as common, so most Artists want to find a way to take the gig. And most Artists have such specific talents t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, July 26, 2013
JK Rowling has been casting some magic spells again. And this one was called “Pseudonymicus Invisiblistus!” Here’s the cliff notes version of what happened: JK wrote a bo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, July 25, 2013
A great article appeared in The Journal last week written by its critic (and one of last year’s TEDx Broadway speakers), Terry Teachout. As we all know, it’s easy for us (includi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Some of the coolest cold emails I get are from high school students all over the country, asking me for advice on where to go and what to study in college if they want to work on Broadway so…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
There are no absolutes in marketing. Except this one: No show is for “everyone”. One of the most common mistakes that new Producers/Writers make is thinking that their show appea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, July 22, 2013
As I blogged about on Friday, Netflix dealt the mainstream media companies a major punch-in-the-face last week when their original series, House of Cards, was nominated for a Best Drama Ser…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Entertainment industry history was made yesterday when Netflix, the service I formerly referred to as Blockbuster-online, was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards for its original programming. It wa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, July 18, 2013
In my Broadway Investing Seminar, I always take a moment to answer the question “why do people invest in Broadway shows?” There are a bunch of reasons, from going to the opening …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
I get breaking news from CNN pushed to my iPhone, as I’m sure a lot of you do as well. And I’ve read some pretty sad things over the years. But for some reason, the death of Co…
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