3,177 stories from The Producer's Perspective
I was backstage at a Broadway house on my very first show, when an ol’ vet came up to me and said, “Kid,” (yep, he really did call me “Kid”) “You’ll…
Several years ago, a high-powered Broadway Exec told me, “We get a mega hit about every five years.” But I’d argue that the hits are coming faster than that now . . . an…
Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer's Perspective: The most commented on post of the month: Another Sign that Big Business is Doubl…
Yesterday, we talked about how the shorter attention spans of our audience may have an effect on the type of theater that is created. But there’s another, less obvious effect that our …
We all know that we have shorter attention spans than we used to.  In fact, according to this, goldfish can pay attention to stimuli longer than humans can. And this is even more tr…
When I was building my business, I looked around at other Broadway production companies to get ideas for the type of company that I wanted to have . . . from the products they produced…
Quick . . . trivia time . . . what’s the longest running play of any kind, anywhere, since the beginning of time? It’s not Phantom. It’s not The Fantasticks. It’…
My mom is responsible for me being here. Not just here on this planet. Â That’s obvious. Â But she’s responsible for me being here . . . on this blog. Â Because she’s…
I’m kicking myself for not writing this blog at the beginning of the summer instead of at the end. Ok. Â Now that I’m done with the self-flagellation of the foot-variety, here …
Last weekend, I took a 24-hour jaunt to the Bahamas for a meeting with a client at the Atlantis mega resort. It wasn’t the first time I’ve been to Atlantis. Â It was actually t…
The first sign that summer is sliding into the sunset is when the books close on the first quarter of the Broadway season.  And they did just that this past Sunday. Hard to believe tha…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending August 21st, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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It took me about nine months to get Mr. Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg to agree to do a podcast.  It was a tough negotiation, but hey, you think the man who produced almost 10…
I've been at this bloggin' thing for a few Olympic cycles now, and I've written about what we can learn from the Games before. And as I watched Simone Biles vault to heights never seen befor…
I was in suburban Massachusetts last weekend visiting the ‘rents, when I stumbled on a story of a small town Selectman that reminded me of what our shows should endeavor to do. Ther…
I swear I didn’t have any insider information. Last week, I blogged about a potential secondary-market killer and speculated that one of the shows that might be the first to take a …
Like Paul Revere on his favorite ride, I’ve been e-shouting that “Big Business is coming! Â Big Business is coming!” for a few years now. When I started blogging back in …
Broadway is booming. Â And if you asked me to name names of the people responsible for that boom, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron would be right up there towards the top. These two Producers, w…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending August 14th, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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As the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, there is a bit of a brouhaha brewing Off Broadway. See, the contract between the Off-Broadway League and Actors Equity Association expires on N…
The choice of where to advertise is one of the most important decisions a Producer can make during a show’s run. Because, as we pointed out yesterday, if you can get your grosses to in…
You’d probably guess that the answer to the question in the headline of this blog is, “They go down.” But the question is, how much? If Broadway Producers, General Managers…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending August 7th, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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Barry Weissler gave me my start. He didn’t know it because it was the great Production Stage Manager, Craig Jacobs, that actually hired me as the Production Assistant on the Weissler&#…
Do you have something to say?  Why not do a show about it? I don’t care if you’re an actor, a writer, a comedian, or just a person with an opinion and a passion to get that…
