2,035 stories by "Ken Davenport"
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
Sure you can study marketing in school. Â You can even read books about it like I do. But there’s really only one way to master Broadway marketing, and that’s to do it. Â And…
If you thought yesterday’s blog was a little nerdified, wait until you hear about this. Every year, there’s this massive tech festival in Vegas called the Consumer Electronics Sh…
Nerd alert! I like chess. In fact, there was a time when I was a member of the Manhattan Chess Club. Â I even took lessons from this guy, who at one point in his incredible career beat Bob…
I woke up this morning half hoping to see mountains of snow in the streets, and people cross country skiing down 5th Avenue (I’ve seen that twice before in my twenty plus years in the …
You’ve worked so hard advertising your show, and then wham-bam-thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another, in comes Mother Nature to remind you who’s the boss. As you probably know, Broadw…
I first met Terrence McNally when I was the Associate Company Manager on Ragtime, although I felt like I had known him for years before.  There’s just something about his work . …
Like it or not, reviews matter. And if you’re interested in the business of Broadway (which I gotta assume you are), then knowing what the reviewers say about all the shows on Broad…
They beat me to it. I’ve been brainstorming a way to do a live Broadway Shark Tank, and were just getting ready to firm up the details, when, leave it to those crafty folks over at the…
Politics is one of the greatest stages in the world. Â And every year, we see one helluva show when the President addresses Congress and The Country World with his State of the Union addre…
