2,069 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Every year I post the invite for our annual holiday soiree on my blog, and every year I wonder, "I wonder if people will come." And every year, you do! A big thanks to the record n…
Here's a trivia question for you . . . How many of the musicals debuting in the 2011-12 season kick-started in Chicago? Answer? Zippo. Chicago was once one of our go-to tryout cities, thanks…
One of the benefits of the Annual Broadway League meeting held every December is that you get to pick up your glossy copy of the Broadway Audience demographic study. This study is one of the…
"Free cruise! Free 3 day weekend! Disney World Tickets! No strings attached! All that you have to do is listen to a 20 minute presentation on a timeshare!" You've all seen these of…
Happy Holidays PPers! In case you haven't checked a calendar recently, there are only 13 days until C day and only 8 until the first day of Hanukkah. If you're still shopping for the Produce…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 11, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $449,136 4,380 59.…
If we were playing Will It Recoup this Fall, here's a show I would have put my money on. Samuel Jackson, Angela Bassett . . . and the biggest star . . . Martin Luther King! The Mountaintop o…
I stumbled on an old book about Mssrs Rodgers and Hammerstein today, and found a chapter about the trials and tribulations of getting Oklahoma! off the ground. It was a tough one to finance,…
Until they figure out how to make megabytes look pretty on a shelf, books will never go out of style. It might be cooler, cheaper and easier to read a blog on a computer, but it ain't tangib…
Whenever something is scarce and has value, there will always be a way for resellers to profit from it. Diamonds, Elvis Presley Autographed Toilet Seats, and yes, theater tickets. That prefa…
Every few months or so, someone rings the death knell for Broadway, and for theater in general. Antiquated, archaic . . . and a few other "A" words are bandied about by those who t…
As I announced back in September, our final reading of the year has international ancestry. Martha, Marina, was written by Ana-Maria Bamberger of Bucharest and has quite a life overseas, whe…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending December 4, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $447,102 4,458 60.1…
There is a lot I could tell you about Burning, the new play by Thomas Bradshaw that is premiering at The New Group right now. But I think this says it all . . . WARNING: Explicit Material- n…
A study was just released in the UK that just proved what you and I already knew . . . going to the theater actually makes you happier. Yep, you can read all about it here, but according to …
Well, well, well, would you look at this! The House of Reps down in DC passed a bill recently that's near and dear to my heart called the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. In what is being…
Hey, readers, here is your monthly recap of what posts you were the most engaged with over the past 30 days. The most read post of the month: Extra! Extra! Read all about it . . . The most c…
If you're a basketball fan, you've been foaming at the mouth and ornery to everyone you know for the past couple o' months, as you've suffered through B-Ball withdrawal thanks to the lockout…
26 Weeks down. 26 to go. The 2011-12 Broadway season is half over and already people are wondering . . . will we shatter another sales record? Well, so far, so good. The first 26 weeks of th…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 27, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $313,879 5,136 69.…
I don't watch that much TV anymore. And none of it is live. What I do is pick a word-of-mouth recommended series available to watch instantly on Netflix and watch a few episodes a week while…
Another week, another Broadway musical! Special thanks to the Producers of Bonnie & Clyde, the sponsors of this week's Sunday Giveaway. One of you will get two free tickets to see B&…
It's 12:38 AM as I type. We're 38 minutes into Black Friday, and I know a bunch of people at brick and mortar stores right this very second. In the middle of dessert at the Thanksgiving dinn…
There's a whole bunch of things about the theater industry that I wish were a whole lot . . . different. But despite all that, on a day like Thanksgiving, it's important to remember that whi…
Advertising isn't about impressions. It's about conversions. Someone could offer me a free 1,000,000 piece direct mail for Godspell to citizens in Sri Lanka and it would be just about worthl…
