As has become the custom here at TPP, here is a list of just five of the takeaways from this past weekend's Get Your Show Off The Ground Seminar. Sending out unsolicited scripts is like an a…
Confucius say, "Anything that can be done big, can be done small." Ok, he didn't really say that, but it doesn't make it any less true. Case in point. When big Broadway shows "…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 20, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $358,956 4,701 74.…
It's been called "one of the greatest musicals never to play New York" . . . and now, Kander and Ebb's The Visit, starring Chita Rivera and John Cullum, will be presented in the ci…
Save the date, PPers, it's time for the Producer's Perspective offline event of the year, the Producer's Perspective social. (insert sound of "whoop whoop" here) Don't know what th…
One of the greatest gifts Twitter has given brands is the ability to electronically eavesdrop on conversations about their products. "@XXX airlines sucks! Waited for three hours on tarm…
Yep. Finish it with me . . . Why not a play club . . . or a musical club. Right? My mission as a theater professional is to amplify the conversation about the theater. More people talking ab…
Sure you know about WOM, but do you know about WOMMA? WOMMA is the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (yep - if it exists, there's probably an organization to support it - and if there isn'…
Veteran's Day was this past weekend, and it had me singing Madonna in the shower this morning. If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 13, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $748,355 7,390 90.03% $101.27 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSI…
What's this? A brand new musical opening on Broadway this Fall without star casting and that isn't based on a movie or a superhero? Ok, that's not exactly true. Lysistrata may be one of the …
To buy tickets to Private Lives on Broadway click the link below: BUY PRIVATE LIVES TICKETS! - - - - - - - - - - Here is the official information for Private Lives on Broadway: About Private…
When pricing a show these days, whether it's on Broadway or in any theater around the country, there are four categories a producer needs to consider. Premium Price Regular Price Discount Pr…
In the middle of a negotiation recently, someone tried the ol', "I've been in this business for 20 years," line. I waited, thought for a second and then realized the for the first …
There aren't many training programs for commercial theater producers. And only one is affiliated with The Broadway League. If you don't know about CTI, you should check it out. Under the lea…
At my subway station, I've got two newspaper guys competing to give away all of their free morning papers. You know the ones I'm talking about right? The news in them is just about the same,…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 6, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $697,433 6,928 84.41% $100.67 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSIC…
. . . thank you. There's a lot of people that will be joining me at Circle in the Square tonight who helped make the first ever revival of Godspell happen. There is Stephen Schwartz, and Dan…
A lot of folks don't think of Broadway Producers as Entrepreneurs. But when you think about it, we are all serial start-up guys and dolls. If you produce three shows a year, you've started t…
Bye-bye October, 2011! Take your freaky snow storm with you. Now let's see what kept you warm during this weirdly cool month: The most read post of the month: Taxi! Take me to Broadway! The …
I love a good challenge, but let me tell you something . . . I'd rather market a pile of poop than Paris Hilton. Luckily, for Miss P, Jason Moore, her manager for 9 years (who is not related…
There was a healthy sized article in yesterday's Times about the limited number of new musicals debuting on Broadway this year, and how if you were a Producer with a pubescent musical, you m…
Godspell was fortune enough to be featured on The Late Show with David Letterman yesterday (you can see the clip here), and while I waited for the show to begin, something special happened. …
With all the chatter about the upcoming presidential election, you'd think it was tomorrow, not a year from now. I'm sure I'll write quite few blogs over the next twelve months about how run…
A blog reader and POG who I also refer to as "the other Ken" tipped me off to a City Council meeting that happened on Friday to discuss, "the unavailability of tickets for ent…