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The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 9, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $1,130,429 11,517 95.02% $98.15 ANNIE $1,058,72…
Gotta love the folks at Funny or Die for putting together this little vid. Â I mean, what would happen if Box Office smash Argo was made into a musical? Â They’re doing it with Roc…
Hot, hot, hot off the Broadway League presses . . . here comes the sexy stats about you . . . yes you . . . the people that see Broadway shows. Every year, members of the Broadway league get…
When famous people that have had an impact on the biz pass on, I usually blog about it. Â See this for example. Â Or this. This past weekend, the biz lost someone who has also helped kee…
Sound the bells. Â Light the lights. Â An Off-Broadway show is in the black! Last week, Tribes, the Off-Broadway show by Nina Raine which has been running for only nine months at The Bar…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 2, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $976,184 10,196 84.13% $95.74 ANNIE $948,150 10…
Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective: The most read post AND the most commented on post of the month:Â Â The NBA .…
I’ll tell you what’s next? Â Sales every day. I love me some Black Friday. Â And as you know from my blog last week, I think there’s a lot that every show out there and…
This could be one of the best panel discussion topics I’ve seen in a long time, and it’s brought to you by Off-Broadway Alliance. This Sunday, December 2nd, at the World Famous S…
Broadway lost one of the great Producers on Monday, when Marty Richards passed on to the Great White Way in the sky. Just look at these credits: Â On The Twentieth Century, Sweeney Todd, G…
26 Weeks are in the bag for this Broadway season already. Â Can you believe it? Â We’re halfway through the race . . . so let’s see how we’re doing this year. If you re…
It’s the final production of this year’s Davenport Theatrical Reading Series! And we’ve saved a goodie for the lastie. Schooled is written by Lisa Lewis and is directed …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 25, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $1,104,312 11,963 87.74% $92.31 ANNIE $1,499,8…
Today is the biggest shopping day of the year. Â But I doubt that it’s the biggest theater ticket selling day of the year. For some reason, buying theater tickets can never compete w…
Gobble, gobble, yo. Â Time to get your Turkey and Thanks on. So, here are five stuffing-a-licious things that I’m thankful for on Broadway this year. 1. Â Smash – Season 2! I…
Tough love. I had to give a little TL to a client who wanted to take the play to Broadway. Â It wasn’t that I didn’t think the play was good. I just didn’t think it belon…
‘Tis the season! Â Turkey and Trimmings . . .and Tourists! And . . . of course, gifts! If shopping for that special Producer in your life has got your spreadsheets in a knot, fear no…
It has been three years since I first started my Get Your Show Off The Ground seminars, and they just get more fun each and every time I have one. And this past Saturday’s seminar was …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 18, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $533,800 10,229 86.92% $52.18 AN ENEMY OF THE …
It took me six months to get a reservation, and it costs about as much as a Macbook Air, but I finally realized a dream this week and ate at Per Se, a Thomas Keller restaurant that is one of…
So much of the training we receive for our professions has nothing to do with our professions. Â It has to do with our lives. How we were raised, how we spent our childhood, and, yes, our …
Just look at what our friends in film on the left coast have done! Over the past ten years, as movies have become more difficult to finance, Producer Credit has been added to the perk list f…
My acting teacher used to ask about my motivation in a thick Russian accent. “Kenneth! Â Why you . . . you do want do these things in scene?” (BTW, my mom, my dad, and my actin…
CTI, The Commercial Theater Institute, is THE place to train if you’re looking for a classroom like education in producer training. It’s like the Parris Island for Producers. The…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 11, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $461,281 7,225 68.13% $63.85 AN ENEMY OF THE P…
