2,069 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Sometimes I wonder if NYC will ever declare Oscar Sunday a city-wide holiday. I mean, the streets are already deserted, people are having dinner parties . . . all we need to do is suspend so…
I really can't believe we're about to enter our 4th and final Quarter of the year. The year has flown by. It seemed like yesterday we were counting up the number of Tonys Book of Mormon was …
When anyone that has an impact on our industry passes away, it has a pretty massive effect on me. But when it's someone that I've met, someone that I've worked with, and someone that inspire…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 26, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $724,239 8,214 100.07% $88.17 CHICAGO $538,849 6,753…
Ok, here's a first in the five years (!) of Producer's Perspective history! I had another giveaway all lined up for today. I had finished the blog entry and everything. And then I got a call…
One month ago, almost to the day, several hundred passionate people converged on New World Stages for the first ever TEDxBroadway conference. It was a very exciting day, with great speakers …
At the end of the life cycle of any project, whether it's a success, or a, well, not-so-success (we don't use the "F" word here), it's vital that you sit down, and take stock of wh…
What a Saturday seminar we had this week! Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but we lowered the number of seminar participants a couple of sessions ago to give even more attention to th…
One of my New Year's resolutions was to take a break from working on my shows every once in awhile in order to work with charitable organizations. I've got some fun stuff in mind on how I ca…
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…
