2,068 stories by "Ken Davenport"
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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!…
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. …
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…
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…
