Tuesday, 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 04:30PMMonday, July 11, 2011
It’s official. Tickets for Godspell are officially on sale for all buyers. We had a two week American Express presale period that ended last night at midnight (we traded that time fo…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:30PMSunday, July 10, 2011
Outdoor (billboards, posters, etc.) is one of my favorite forms of advertisement. And, the way Broadway theater rentals work, is that the theater owner will allow you to put up your front-of…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 04:30PMSaturday, July 9, 2011
I often compare a Producer to the CEO of a traditional company. And just like a CEO, a Producer gets a lot of reports on a weekly basis that need to be reviewed. Because so much happens du…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:00PMFriday, July 8, 2011
After a set is designed for a Broadway show, the designer and the technical director host what we call a “bid session.” At one of these sessions, all of the scene shops that ar…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:00PMThursday, July 7, 2011
Broadway can be a pretty closed-door community for anyone trying to get in . . . especially actors. Because Godspell is one of those shows that means so much to so many people, we wanted to …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:00PMWednesday, July 6, 2011
I had my 2nd to last meeting with potential merchandise companies today. Picking a merch company is not only important because of the revenue a show can receive (done the right way, merch sh…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 06:00PMTuesday, July 5, 2011
We had an ad meeting today with a very specific agenda. In order to take advantage of the huge number of theatergoing tourists in Times Square in the summer, we’re going to start an …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 02:00PMSunday, July 3, 2011
Rajiv Joseph's Pulitzer Prize finalist play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, starring Robin Williams as the self-questioning title character who roams a haunted patch of Iraq, circ…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, June 23, 2011
Bonnie and Clyde, the new rockabilly-and-blues-infused musical about the Depression-era American outlaws, will begin previews Nov. 4 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre with an official opening…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
With "money" reviews from the New York Times and other publications in its gym bag, Off-Broadway's Lysistrata Jones — the pop-comic musical rewrite of Aristophanes' a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AMSunday, June 19, 2011
Director John Rando's Guys and Dolls for Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, officially opens June 19 at 5 PM following previews that began June 15. The company is led by Michael…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMJenn Colella plays Heather, known for doing her "strong woman" numbers, in the York Theatre Company revival of Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer's rueful pop musical I'm Gettin…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
The Spoon River Project, a dramatic new adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters' 1915 collection of poems, "The Spoon River Anthology," comes alive at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemeter…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, June 13, 2011
The York Theatre Company, the Off-Broadway company committed solely to musical theatre, will present the 20th Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre to Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:44PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
Jenn Colella will play Heather, known for doing her "strong woman" numbers, in the York Theatre Company revival of Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer's rueful pop musical I'm Ge…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:50PMMonday, June 6, 2011
Florida Stage, an iconic presence in South Florida's theatre scene since 1987, has closed its doors after its board of directors voted June 5 to seek court-ordered bankruptcy protection.…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:41PMThe Broadway revival of Jason Miller's That Championship Season recouped its $2.75 million investment, a spokesman for the play confirmed. The limited run of the starry male-bonding dram…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:08AMSunday, June 5, 2011
The new musical Once, based on the 2006 independent film about an Irish busker and a Czech musician who form a tentative collaboration and romance in Dublin, will get its premiere at Off-Bro…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:01PMSaturday, June 4, 2011
The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were handed out May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, make their broadcast debut June 4 at 9 PM ET on the Ovation network.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, May 31, 2011
The high-def digital film of Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed, Tony Award-nominated Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:21PMThe Bay Street Theatre launches its 20th season with Jay Presson Allen's Tru, starring "Saturday Night Live" veteran Darrell Hammond, which begins previews May 31.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 20, 2011
Baby It's You!, the story of a New Jersey housewife who launched the 1960s girl-group The Shirelles, will begin offering Friday matinees next month.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:45PMTuesday, May 17, 2011
Brian Bedford, who directed and stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed production of Oscar Wilde's comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, told Playbill.com he was "…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMMonday, May 9, 2011
Greta Lee and Zoe Winters have been announced to join Tony Award-winning actress Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert for the world premiere of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, which will premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PMDouglas Sills, a Tony Award nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Sara Gettelfinger, last seen on Broadway in A Free Man of Color, will star as Gomez and Morticia, respectively, in the nati…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:40PMKneehigh Theatre Company, playwright Dael Orlandersmith and Mikhail Baryshnikov will spice the 2011-12 season of Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, the Tony Award-winning company anno…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:51PMUPDATED! Arthur Laurents, the playwright, director, screenwriter and librettist whose best known works were the musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the films "The Turning Point"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMIn conjunction with its upcoming production of The Seven Deadly Sins, New York City Ballet presents the seminar "The Seven Deadly Sins: Creating a Ballet" May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 6, 2011
Arthur Laurents, the playwright, director, screenwriter and librettist whose best known works were the musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the films "The Turning Point" and &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:59PMArthur Laurents, the playwright, director, screenwriter and librettist whose best known works were the musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the films "The Turning Point" and &quo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:29PM 
