2,035 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Last week, Mark Gordon and Hawk Koch, the Presidents of The Producers Guild (the Hollywood version of The Broadway League), called the 40+ names of Producers on The Butler ”embar…
The Awesome 80s Prom was my very first show in New York. After a decade of Company Managing and General Managing Broadway shows and National Tours and dreaming about creating my own, I jumpe…
Alright Procrastinators . . . did you accomplish that New Year’s Resolution of yours to finish your musical? Â I hope so, because the New York Musical Theatre Festival’s submis…
On Tuesday, I tweeted that I had just signed on to be an above-the-title Producer on a new Broadway show arriving this season (in just a few months actually). Now that the ink is drying on t…
If you’ve taken a stroll down the middle of Times Square lately, you may have noticed that a huge chunk of the street has been ripped up around 42nd street. It looks like this: …
Oh, how different things were just a few years ago. When I was brainstorming creative ways to raise money for Godspell that were aligned with the creative message of the show (GodspellÂ�…
I have a man crush on Bob Greenblatt. I first met him back in the day, when he was still at Showtime, and producing 9 to 5Â in his spare time (I mean, that’s a seriously successful m…
Yesterday, we looked at some nasty-a$$ numbers about the first quarter of the Broadway season. And, as you may recall, it got me a little jittery. So, I put a whole bunch of numbers into a g…
I just didn’t want to admit it. I didn’t want to admit that summer was over, which is why I flew by the end of Broadway’s first 13-week cycle last week without my usual blo…
I was getting out of the subway this morning and thinking, “What will I write about for tomorrow’s blog?” when StubHub slapped me in the face. On the West side of Broadway,…
I’m going to make a little wager. If you’re reading this blog, then I’ll bet that you’re a planner. Â Come on, admit it . . . you’re an organizer, with to-do-…
Happy L-Day, PPers. It’s easy to believe the old cliché out there that all Producers are union-hating organizer-busters. Â And it’s easy to believe that all card carrying memb…
Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer's Perspective The most read post of the month:Â 10 Shows that Stand Out at the Fringe " 2013 The mo…
If you’re producing a show, then you should have merch. Â I don’t care how small of a show it is, or where it is, or even what it is. Â With the cost of production so cheap t…
Say goodbye to the tourists. After Labor Day, they’ll check out of the city, and they won’t be back for some time. Â We’ll see a few in the middle of October, and a few …
In case you’ve been living under a rock, that’s under a rock, that’s under a mountain of rocks, you have probably heard that Miley Cyrus turned some heads on Sunday night w…
I owe you an apology. Because this blog, and its related seminar, is at least a year in the making. Ever since I started teaching my Get Your Show Off The Ground and Broadway Investing 101 S…
I was reading a small town newspaper (!) over the weekend, and I flipped through the arts “corner” (It probably used to be called a section, but no longer) to see if there were a…
I love it when one of our own gets a bigger stage and grabs the world’s attention. Â You know, like Matt Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson, and most recently, Godspell‘s own Uzo Aduba…
I got one of those mass emails the other day that thankfully slipped through my spam filters and got me thinking. Â The subject? Â ”Life 100 Years Ago . . .” The email includ…
The Broadway community is an incredibly tight knit family, albeit a little dysfunctional. Â We’re all pulling for each other, because deep down the theater, any theater, whether it&#…
I got an email from my high school English teacher last week asking if I could help a group of students she knew get a backstage tour at a Broadway show. She didn’t ask me which show t…
This should be American Idol‘s summer vacation. Â They just crowned the winner of season 12 a couple of months ago. Â And Season 13, with some new celebrity judge du jour (I’…
We’re a game-playing society . . . and I’m not just talking about the psychological ones agents try to play on producers when negotiating contracts. Everything’s more fun w…
A great new study was released on Tuesday from ShareThis that “provides insights into the relationship between online sharing of movie related content and movie ticket purchases.”…
