Sunday, August 7, 2011
It may be further than 67 days away, but today I started a rough list of who will be invited to our opening night performance and party. With only just over 700 seats and with a lot of inv…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
There are groups, and then there are student groups, church groups, senior citizen groups, etc. Because Godspell has such a unique appeal to so many different types of group ticket buyers, i…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMFriday, August 5, 2011
Ok, admit it. How many of you wanted to skip right over this blog after you read what it was about? I can’t imagine that there’s a Producer out there that got into the business…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMThursday, August 4, 2011
There’s a conference coming up for the Student Youth Travel Association in late August, and this year it’s in NYC. We’re doing a huge push for the student market on Godspell (and off…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMAdditional casting has been announced for the revised revival of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever starring Harry Connick Jr., which will begin previews at Broadway's St. Ja…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PMWednesday, August 3, 2011
Now that the billboard is up and our “metrolights” (the signs at the entrances of parking lots around the city) have started popping up as well, it’s time to shift our advertising atte…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMTuesday, August 2, 2011
Remember that billboard we had a meeting about 18 days ago? Click here if you need a reminder. Well, yesterday that little picture on the Serino Coyne conference table became a towering bi…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Today we had our last day of callbacks. We saw some new folks, as well as some patient ones that have been kind enough to come back for us a few times; dedicated, passionate pros, and we&…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMThink of it as a new waltz for "Che" and "Eva." Tony Award winners Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will bring their acclaimed concert act to Broadway's Ethel Barrymor…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PM"Smash," the new hourlong drama-with-music about the making (and makers) of a Broadway musical, will launch on the network Feb. 6, 2012, at 10 PM ET, according to the show's of…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:51PMSunday, July 31, 2011
I flew to/from Chicago today, catching the first flight out of LGA and the last flight back from O’Hare, so I had the flight(s) to catch up on my budgetary analysis. I do this on a weekl…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMSaturday, July 30, 2011
Today ended a couple of weeks of back and forth between our Director, our Set Designer (David Korins), our TD, myself and our GM team. The bids (how much it’s going to cost) from scene…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMFriday, July 29, 2011
I know, the subject of this blog makes it sounds like I’m counting a warehouse full of soccer balls before shipping them off to Modell’s. But nope, I’m talking about taking…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMThursday, July 28, 2011
Today I had the thrill of announcing that the original Broadway Producer of Godspell, Edgar Lansbury, has joined my production as an above-the-title Producer. Yeah. I know. Cool, right? …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMWednesday, July 27, 2011
After I wrote the “82 Days ’til . . . “ blog about getting our music out early, I came to a realization that our Godspell Advertising Plan might be a little light in radio.…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
I was going to go to law school once. And then, when I started reading and writing contracts when I was company managing and general managing shows in the decade before I started producing, …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMMonday, July 25, 2011
. . . so what can we do with them? That was the topic of today’s marketing brainstorming session. We have a brainstorming session in my office at least one day a week, and that day w…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMPS Classics' studio cast recording of Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash's 1946 musical, Sweet Bye and Bye, which was released July 12, debuted at #10 on the Billboard Top Cast Album chart i…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:48AMSunday, July 24, 2011
I took a break from my weekend paperwork today to glance at CNN and get an update on the current drama in D.C. First health care, then tax reform, and now the debt ceiling. (Ever get the f…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 07:04PMSaturday, July 23, 2011
Whenever I consider producing a musical, I always start with the score. After all, the root word of Musical is “music” . . . so I’d say that makes it a pretty important i…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 05:19PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Today was a day about being on the phone. I talked to almost everyone on the first page of our contact sheet at least once, and some several times. But in the midst of all that dialing and…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 10:05PMThursday, July 21, 2011
There are 84 days until our first performance of Godspell on Broadway, but we have 99 days to the opening night . . . and the opening night party. And believe it or not, that’s what I …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 10:57PMWednesday, July 20, 2011
What I love about this business is that you just never know what’s going to come your way on any given day. I often wake up in the AM and the first thing I think is, “What cool…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:25PMTuesday, July 19, 2011
While we are still searching for a few folks to fill out our cast, today our General Manager and Casting Director started making offers to a few of the actors that we definitely know we want…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 08:00PMMonday, July 18, 2011
We had 8 hours of callbacks today. I’m always amazed at the incredible talent that this city and country offers (we had several people fly themselves in from all over as we continued…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 08:00PMSunday, July 17, 2011
The one designer we haven’t announced yet is our Sound Designer,. Because Godspell is a rock musical, and because we’re doing it completely in the round (which is one of the ch…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 08:00AMSaturday, July 16, 2011
As you can tell from yesterday’s blog, we’re deep in the staffing stage of our show. Every day we add a few more names to our contact sheet. Today, it was all about the musicia…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:30PMFriday, July 15, 2011
The Production Stage Manager on a big musical like Godspell, is one of the most important positions we have to staff as we get closer and closer to our ‘go’ date. A PSM (who wi…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:30PMThursday, July 14, 2011
All shows need “swag,” or promotional items featuring your show’s logo/message that can be used at trade shows, in gift bags, for partners, etc. I’m talking custom …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:30PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Broadway shows have a lot of news worthy of a press release in the three months leading up to their first performance. But the challenge is that when you announce too much, too fast, and if …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:30PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Because Godspell is such an appealing show to people of all different ages, types, etc., Group Sales is a big part of my strategy for filling seats and reducing expenses (if I can get some l…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 04:30PM 
