2,070 stories by "Ken Davenport"
As you probably know, especially if you're reading the Day-By-Day blog, I'm currently in tech for Godspell. Tech means two things: late nights and junk food. Last night, at just after 10 PM,…
I don't know if Steve Jobs ever even went to a Broadway show, but I do think he was one of the greatest Producers who ever lived. He built things the world didn't even know it needed. And he…
Every week, Ryan Seacrest counts down the Top 40, in a tradition handed to him by the shaggy-voiced Casey Casem. It's a weekly "hit-list" that I listened to as a kid, and millions …
If I were a statistics guy (wait a minute, I am), I'd say that 75% of the questions I get in email form and at my 'Get Your Show Off The Ground' seminars are marketing related. Specifically,…
One of the most popular flicks of the last several weeks has been the Brad Pitt produced, Moneyball, based on the book of the same name. Simply put, Moneyball is about statistics . . . and h…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 2, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $814,553 7,822 95.30% $104.14 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICA…
When one of the most successful composers in musical theater history decides to make his producing debut with someone else's musical, you know something is up. That composer is none other th…
One of the economic challenges of a long-running musical or play is that because it's pretty much the same experience, it's hard to get an audience to come back a second time (which is one o…
I don't know where September went but it's g-g-g-g-gone. Let's see what interested you in what seems like the shortest month of the year. The most read post of the month: 5 Shows that Stand …
We're going international, y'all! On December 12th at 8 PM, we'll have our final reading of the year and this time, we've gone overseas to get our subject. Martha, Martha comes to us all the…
Patti LuPone should play Annie Oakley some day, because the woman is the 'straightest shooter' I've ever seen. When something's buggin' her, whether it's a photographer in a theater, or a ci…
Out there in the hills of Hollywood, it's not uncommon for a movie star to take on the title of Producer, either on his or her own films or on other properties as well. Look at the current h…
When 65% of our audience is from "out-of-town", there's no question as to how we should overweight our marketing and product development strategies in order to achieve commercial success (if…
Snapped this pic on Sunday eve as one of the first examples of media sharing in Times Square between two unrelated shows. This billboard (one of the baby bills in TS) first split pre-summer …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending September 25, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $816,609 7,822 95.30% $104.40 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUS…
Holy Nuns, batman! We had a new comment record for last week's contest with 240+ entries!!! Wowza! In case you missed it, the challenge was to rename a musical replacing one of the words wit…
When 65% of our audience is from "out-of-town", there's no question as to how we should overweight our marketing and product development strategies in order to achieve commercial s…
I got pitched an opportunity today to be a part of a group sales catalog that was being distributed to thousands of potential group sales buyers. All that I had to do was buy an ad. Seems li…
A lot of folks out there on both sides of the bargaining table think that negotiating an actor deal or an artist deal is the same as buying a house or a car or a fake rolex on Canal Street..…
The secret of marketing an experience like theater is knowing how to tease. Because the price of a Broadway show can be in the triple digits, your audience needs to understand what they are …
When I was a kid I collected baseball cards of my favorite players.
When I was a kid I had posters of my favorite movie stars on my walls.
When I was a kid . . . I didn't know one Broa…
Since we started the Get Your Show . . . seminar, I'm proud to say that we've gotten some pretty great feedback and had some pretty great success stories . . . so I'm glad that people are en…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending September 18, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $815,653 7,916 96.44% $103.04 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUS…
We often talk about the longest runnings show in Broadway history . . . Phantom, Cats, Les Miz, Chicago . . . but rarely do we talk about the longest running plays. Why? Because you wouldn't…
When I was a kid I collected baseball cards of my favorite players. When I was a kid I had posters of my favorite movie stars on my walls. When I was a kid . . . I didn't know...
