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Ken: Hello everybody and welcome to a very special episode of The Producer's Perspective Podcast. You know why? So two reasons " First, this is our 100th episode. Insert trumpet sounds here.…
Welcome shoppers! I know, I know, you can’t believe it. Â Black Friday is already here. Â (Has anyone seen October, by the way? Â Where or where did that month go? Â Here Octob…
It’s a tradition. People wake up and turn on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. How many people? How about 22.3 million! MILLION! And you know what’s amazing about those k…
That’s it. Â She’s half over. Believe it or not, Ripley once said, but we are halfway to this year’s Tony Awards already. Â Can you believe it? If it feels like not muc…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending November 20, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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One of my favorite subjects to talk about is the “Hollywood Invasion” of the past 10 years. Hollywood used to not want to touch us. Â Now? Â Every single movie studio has a t…
Here’s a fact. There are a lot of people who want to be actors in this world. Â (It’s one of the reasons this is my most popular post.) And I get it. Â I was an actor once (a…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending November 13, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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It was just a bunch of baseball hats. But I saw brilliance. The baseball hats were part of the concept for Gutenberg! The Musical! , the first show I ever saw that Alex Timbers directe…
If you’re new to this blog, it won’t take you too long of scrolling through the archives to realize that I’m a data dude. Â I love me some research, focus groups, surveys…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending November 6, 2016.
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Jack and I set a date for his podcast a few months ago . . . and I’ve been like a kid on Christmas Eve waiting for the date to come. Not just because I knew he’d drop advice like…
You’ve all seen Broadway ads . . . on TV, on billboards . . . maybe you’ve even received an email about a discount from some 3rd party like Playbill. Â Or, maybe you’re e…
We get a lot of script submissions here at DTE. Our open, no-questions-asked, no-agent-needed, script submission policy is something I’m proud of. But we can’t produce everyth…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending October 30, 2016.
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I go back a long way with Andrew Lippa . . . so far back that he didn’t even remember meeting me! Â (You’ll have to listen to the podcast to hear the full story, including me w…
One of the reasons I’m a Producer today is because of Hal Prince. And it’s not just because I fan-boy worshiped him and his twenty-one (!) Tony Awards from afar. I was lucky enou…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending October 23, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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Ken: Hello, everybody. You're listening to The Producer’s Perspective Podcast. I’m Ken Davenport. I’m very excited for my guest today and that’s because you know how …
Randy Weiner could have done anything with his life. And he would have been a massive success at whatever he chose. Â Biochemist, lawyer, Hollywood screenwriter, Jewish hip-hop star . . . …
Charles Isherwood jinxed it. During my podcast with The New York Times Critic, I asked him whether he thought we would ever go back to the good ol’ days when Critics actually rev…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending October 16, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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Ken: Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Producer’s Perspective Podcast. We have a terrific guest for everybody today. Honestly, I was shocked when he said he could squeeze this recordi…
When the first show you write becomes a global phenomenon, it could go to your head. That’s not what happened to Joe DiPietro. When I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change expl…
In what is an obvious effort to get out in front of a brewing (ice) storm, Disney Theatricals just informed the actors participating in the upcoming Frozen lab that they’d be gettin…
