2,035 stories by "Ken Davenport"
When I started producing Off Broadway in 2004, it was a challenging landscape. With hard work, “a little bit of luck,” and a lot of guidance from experts in the field, I managed …
A week or so ago, I tweeted a photo of me signing a contract for a show set to debut this fall. Â Well, today, it’s time to announce what that show is . . . As you probably know, I&#…
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: Why the Veronica Mars movie backers got screwed.…
Alright, let’s talk about how we can do some damage and start to take back our discounts! Â (Insert revolutionary cheers and french people waving flags and putting up barricades here…
Whether you know it or not, we’ve been at war for years. Our enemy? Â The discount sites . . . the code farms . . . those not-so-secret online destinations where customers, some of w…
I saw War Horse when it was a wee pony of a show at The National Theatre and remember thinking how wonderful it was going to be on Broadway. And it was. Although it didn’t last as long…
Over the past decade or so, Broadway has had a popular music invasion, as artists like Elton John, Paul Simon, U2, The Eurythmics tried their hand at writing the score to a musical. Â Some…
Last Thursday, I announced that Hunter Chancellor won our very first Associate Producer Scholarship on my upcoming production of The Scottish Play Macbeth. Â (Alan says we can say it where…
If you haven’t heard, Rob Thomas, the creator of the Veronica Mars television series, launched a “Make The Movie of VM” Kickstarter campaign recently, in an effort to make …
What a day I had on Tuesday. For three hours, 12 future Broadway-Producers-To-Be and I talked all things theater, including marketing, financing, and why the show that I wish I would have pr…
I stumbled on this website recently that had a bunch of great tips on writing from folks like David Ogilvy and Henry Miller . . . but it was Ol’ Kurt Vonnegut’s tips on writing a…
Before I begin this blog, let me say, I believe brokers have a place in our business. Â And in most businesses, actually. Â The free market system should allow an individual or a busines…
Miss this year's TEDxBroadway? Curious as to where I got my "takeaways?” Or were you there and do you just miss TEDxBroadway? And now you’re jonesin’ to re-see speakers lik…
Whenever I scan a production budget for a new show, and see that hefty figure allocated to the opening night party, the scrooge in me always takes over and wonders, "What if we didn't have a…
Thanks to the glorious thing that is cable television, I watched one of my favorite 80s movies over the weekend . . . Wargames . . . starring none other than Nice Work if You Can Get It's Ma…
Remember that time I said we’d have 10 Finalists for the Macbeth Associate Producer Scholarship? Well, because we received an inbox-clogging several hundred applications, I’m …
A news alert from my neighbors upstairs! Â (Did you know I was in the same building as NYMF? Â Well, ya do now!) NYMF’s annual networking extravaganza is this coming Saturday, Marc…
A great lesson in business comes to us today from a new company called Pogoseat, who has developed some brand new software that could have a serious application in the theater. Remember that…
It’s trivia week here at the Producer’s Perspective! Â Yesterday a Sondheim stat and now take a look at this: We all know that print advertising is on the decline, right? Well,…
Everyone knows that the great Mr. S. has had a major impact on the Broadway stage, right? Well, get this. Our office just noticed that there isn’t a show with songs by our “Shake…
There’s something you never thought I’d say, right? Well, I didn’t. But Gary Emmanuel, who happens to be one of the brilliant lawyers that made my crowd-funded Broadway pro…
It’s been over a week since Seth MacFarlane offended a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) and Anne Hathaway pi$$ed off a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) at…
I remember when I was just starting out in the biz and thought I knew everything about sales. And then I met a box office treasurer and realized I didn’t know nuthin’. Why sure, …
Musical theater writers out there are facing the exact same problem that popular music writers/artists faced years ago: Â the internet has made it waaaaay too easy to steal their work. See…
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: Wanna be an Associate Producer? Introducing the …
