Friday, March 20, 2015
I try to remain super positive about our lovely little industry, even when things make me go “Ummmm?” I had one of those, “Ok, Ken, stay positive. Â Stay positive. Â No…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Four times a year, I get a group of super passionate peeps in a room, listen to what they are struggling with, and then I kickstart their shows. Â It’s the first seminar I ever taugh…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Studying demographics is like studying the ingredients in your food.  You want know what’s in there, so you can make sure it’s gonna keep you healthy for a long time to com…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
There have been a ton of Broadway musical to movie adaptations over the years . . . from Chicago to Hairspray to Rent to Into the Woods. But there have been hardly any O…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
Did you even know there are two Telecharge websites out there? There are. One is Telecharge.com, the one you know and love. Â The other, formerly known as BroadwayOffers.com, has now been …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
There’s an interesting controversy brewing on the left coast, and it’s not about whether there should be a Sharknado III. No, this one is actually about theater. Â Yep, they no…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
I haven’t thrown up since 1984. Seriously, I’m talking 31 years without as much as a dry heave. Â And that’s an extra special accomplishment when you consider the tons of…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
It wasn’t too long ago that the most buzzed phrase around the biz was “The future of advertising is online.”  Broadway (and the rest of the world) got swept up in the…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
Broadway used to own Times Square. Â Back in the day, if you wanted live entertainment (other than a few seedy strip clubs or the crazy homeless guy on the corner of 47th that talked about…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
It has been over a week since TEDxBroadway 2015, but the inspiring words of the color-outside-the-lines speakers are still whispering in my ears as I tackle my day-to-day tasks in this color…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
They’re calling it “The Dress That Broke The Internet.” I’m talking of course about that blue and black dress . . . or is it gold and white . . . wait, hold on, it…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The end of the 3rd quarter is my favorite. Â First, it means that spring is around the corner. Â And second, it signifies the beginning of our “kick” toward the end of the ye…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
You probably think you know what theater owners do. It’s in their moniker – they just own theaters, right? Â So all they do is sit atop their perch and decide what shows to let…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2015
There has been a historical amount of buzz about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s The Hamilton Mixtape (the original title) since . . . well, since he first told people he was writing it!…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
They say a billion people watched the Academy Awards. Â And I was one of them. By contrast, our little engine that could of an awards show, the Tony Awards, gets an audience of 7 million. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
Yes, my blog and subsequent podcast is called The Producer’s Perspective. And yes, as crazy as it sounds, I haven’t had a Broadway Producer on the podcast! Until now! And how fit…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2015
I always report on the end of year figures for Broadway, and even give you the quarterly reports as well (stay tuned for next week’s 3rd Quarter results, which I expect to be fascin…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
I don’t know about you, but it feels like everywhere I look this Broadway season, someone is talking with a British accent. We’ve got Curious Incident and Queen Elizabeth and tha…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Back in the day, the theater owners were some of the most prolific Producers on Broadway. They produced in part by necessity . . . if their theaters were dark and they needed a booking, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Oh, Brian. You're so dramatic. You were shot down. You got dysentery. You saved puppies. (I mean, puppies, Brian? You brought sweet, innocent little puppies into your stories?) Ok, true or n…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
Everyone on the commercial side of the industry thinks the non-profits have it so easy. Â They can take donations, stars will work for scale, and so on. Â I had a feeling there was anoth…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 14, 2015
Imagine a group of Broadway Avengers! The ability to belt to a high C! Â To do a triple time step while performing on a raked stage and rapping a Lin-Manuel Miranda tune! Â To produce mu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2015
Like all of my Fun on a (Freezing) Friday blogs, this one will incite a few chuckles, for sure. But what’s great about the video you’re about to see is that it’s a pi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2015
If you read the Arts & Leisure section of the NY Times in print then you may have caught a full page ad for the upcoming Broadway musical, The Visit. And if you looked closely at those n…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Day 2 of the conference started out with a mouse sighting. Yep, Disney was in the house. But not the Disney you think. Â This AM we got a talk from Andy Bird, Chairman of Walt Disney Inter…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
In case you missed my tweet from yesterday AM, I’m currently south of the Snow Line in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for the 2015 Biennial Broadway League Conference. The biennial conf…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
There’s a scene in the Howard Stern movie Private Parts where a Producer exclaims that while fans of Howard Stern listen to each show for a good amount of time, the people who ha…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2015
If you asked Producers in town what they’d ask for if the genie from Aladdin came down and granted them three wishes, they’d probably say . . . lower stagehand costs, no discount…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
One of the most fun stocking stuffers I got this year was one of those Money Mazes. Don’t know what I’m talking about? The Money Maze is a 3D cube with a marble inside. Â Get t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Well, it took awhile. Back in 2011, I blogged about the “con” revolution. Â You know, ComicCon, EmeraldCityCon, DragonCon, ILikeHungarianCabinetMakingCon, and so on. Â With a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2015
It’s back!!! After a three year hiatus, we have revived my Broadway fantasy game “Will It Recoup?” just in time for the spring season. What you say?  You don’…
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