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The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 31st, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, then you’ve heard me reference The Swami before. He’s the wizard behind the wall of Telecharge (the ticketing system owned and…
One of my most popular posts of the last couple years is a post with just a few words and a whole lot of numbers. In 2014, we dove into the deep end of the data pool and put together an info…
You know what I love about our Broadway Marketing Awards? More people vote for the Marketing Awards than the Tony Awards. Like a lot more. Â And now, I’ve kept you and all the hard …
I had a consult a few weeks ago with an emerging playwright who was struggling to find someone to put her first play on the boards. When I suggested that the someone she was looking for m…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 24th, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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I don’t usually have actors on my podcast. I’ve only had two actor-guests before, and those were Kate Shindle and Charles Busch. While Kate shone a very bright and enlig…
It was only a matter of time. Before I explain, I have to take you back to the early 2000s, post 9/11 to be exact, when commercial Off Broadway suddenly became a more challenging place to pr…
Sometimes I think we forget what a story we have right under our noses masks. The longest running Broadway musical of all time, The Phantom Of The Opera, is running right this very second…
These guys got me thinking. In their podcast, they talk about how the Independent Broadway Producer is becoming a bit of an endangered species. Â With the influx of corporations and movie …
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 17th, 2016.
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I’ve been on the receiving end of questions from Michael Paulson, the Broadway “beat” reporter for the New York Times, that I thought it was time that I asked HIM a few …
If I was writing this blog twenty years ago, it would be shorter than the run of Moose Murders. Because back then, here’s how you got a Broadway theater . . . You asked for one. And if…
That’s right, Broadway people . . . there is another set of awards for last season still yet to give. Â There are a ton of awards that celebrates the art of what we do . . . but ther…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 10th, 2016.
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In 2016, finding a good business partner may be harder than finding a good life partner. Â Unfortunately, there’s no Tinder for business (hmmmm, new app idea anyone?). And in an indu…
“Ken, guess what,” a client excitedly said before he could even get out a “hello” at the start of our last consult session. “What’s up?” “I ju…
A script came into our e-submission pile the other day that got my attention. Â Unfortunately, not in the “OMG – I gotta read this one right now” way. The title page was …
Last week, we held my annual Get Your Show Off The Ground webinar, featuring four people with a project . . . and a mission to get that project off the ground. Together, we batted about thei…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 3rd, 2016.
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I first noticed Bart’s work, like so many others, when I saw The Light in the Piazza.  I was about about 15 minutes into Act I, when during some moment of rapturous applaus…
The Fourth of July means a lot of things . . . BBQs, fireworks, and of course, the birth of this great (although in an awkward phase) nation. We call it Independence Day . . . the day we …
I was talking to a consulting client the other day who was frustrated with how long it was taking to get her show/career going, through no fault of her own. She was making incredible progres…
I’m channeling my inner Richard Dawson today (or my inner Steve Harvey for those youngins out there) and revealing the results of our annual Tony Awards survey. In case you missed i…
It’s summertime, y’all! And that means, BBQ, golf (heyo!) . . . and theater festivals! And first up on the docket is the Madison Avenue of theater festivals (boutique shopping…
