2,035 stories by "Ken Davenport"
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 19, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $688,467 7,609 92.70% $90.48 CHICAGO $622,523 7,343 …
As the big behemoths in the music biz try to figure out what the &#$@ they are going to do with their turned-upside-down business model, some young tech-savvy upstarts are coming with id…
This week we're giving away two tickets to the recently extended Russian Transport at The New Group starring funny girl and Saturday Night Live alum, Janeane Garofalo! Russian Transport is a…
Almost two years ago, I took a poll of all my Producing Peers in the Broadway League and asked them to give me their definition on what the &!$%# a Producer did anyway. Over 100 of them …
A friend of mine who stays up on the latest in all sorts of technology sent me a link the other day for a projection-like company called ViXen, which is marketing a "visual performance …
One of the greatest challenges of building an audience for Broadway shows is that our experience pretty much stays the same, so it's hard to get people to come back time and time again. We'r…
Crab legs aren't the only juicy things served up in Seattle these days. Brendan Kiley, an e-scribe for Seattle's The Stranger, wrote one heck of a juicy article recently, entitled, "Ten…
Stuck on Act II? Need some structure to help with your structure? Want a deadline to make sure your show gets finished on time? Come to Musical Boot Camp! The writers we talk to and submit s…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 12, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $578,531 6,515 79.37% $88.80 CHICAGO $401,948 5,116 …
She's baaaaaaack. And when I say She, I mean, the actress that is the reason this show even opened on Broadway in the first place. Not too long after the critics drooled all over Nina Ariand…
. . . and here's a spoiler . . . I didn't write it. The blog was emailed to me by about three people . . . and I have a rule, whenever three or more people give me the...
Unless your name is Rumpelstiltskin, then you know that Facebook is poised to be one of the biggest public online companies since Google. Think about it. If we all followed the Peter Lynch p…
My BFFs over at the Off Broadway Alliance asked me to let you know about the latest in their Off-Broadway panel series that just so happens to be . . . this Sunday! Starting at noon and fini…
Hey, don't blame me. I wanted to play Will It Recoup. After all, we've done it for three years in a row, and I have just as much fun as you do trying my luck at "Fantasy Broadway".…
Watch Smash. Smash is the much anticipated, heavily advertised, prime time, major network, Broadway drama about the making of a Broadway musical. It's about Broadway, it's shot on Broadway, …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 5, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $575,400 6,996 85.23% $82.25 CHICAGO $388,774 5,474 6…
You read that right . . . not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 tickets to see Nick Jonas in How To Succeed on Broadway! You could take all of the Jonas Brothers and still have room to go...
It's been talked about for years, and it looks like the new Telecharge.com is almost here! And it features 3-D seat maps, video content, and a whole bunch more. It's in Beta now, so it's not…
It's time to date it up! One of our most successful events last year was our Collaborator Speed Date. If you weren't a reader back then, a CSD is when we gather partnerless composers, libret…
I talk to lots of theatergoers: in focus groups, at the TKTS booth, in the lobby at Godspell, on the subway, on vacation, and everywhere in between. It's become somewhat of a hobby. What ama…
There's a classic musical theater axiom that states within the first fifteen minutes of any musical, the lead character or protagonist must have what is known as an "I want" song. …
If you follow me on the Facebook or the Twitter, then you know I am currently halfway around the world checking out the Japanese production of Altar Boyz. I had never been to Tokyo before (a…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending January 29, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $618,894 7,000 85.28% $88.41 CHICAGO $424,654 5,806 6…
Happy Sunday, everyone! Tired of winter yet? Well, the good news is . . . it's the last Sunday in January. Bad news is . . . February has an extra day this year. But on one of those February…
Casinos have a lot on the 'line', which is why there is a lot to learn from everything they do. I stumbled upon a simple little trick that I've started using for my shows already, and it has…
