3,177 stories from The Producer's Perspective
Ok, bear with me.  I’m getting my Freakonomics on. Freakonomics was a book published by “rogue economists” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner who discovered the h…
Last week was cray-cray. In addition to all the awards season mishegoss (one of my favorite non-gentile words) and the 114 benefits (including my fave, Broadway Bets), last week was also the…
There are some things I don’t like to be right about. And where we ended up at the end of this season is one of them. Last August I wrote a blog predicting that the previous years of b…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending May 22nd, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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Whenever I start a new project and Directors give me a short list of lighting designers they want to work with, Ben Stanton’s name is always on it. Â Always. Â Like every single ti…
Wouldn’t it be cool if all of Broadway was like TEDxBroadway?  So if you missed the Broadway run of a show that you really regret, like, oh, I don’t know Angels in America�…
Yesterday I talked about how I didn’t care about how many names there were above the title of a show. Â And you shouldn’t either, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of …
Something didn’t look right. Every time I looked at the Broadway grosses during the month of April, my “Spidey Sense” went off. Â (And in case you don’t know, ̶…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending May 15th, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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Things that go together: Â Peanut Butter & Jelly. Â Sonny & Cher. Â Hamilton & Tony Nominations. But one partnership that may top them all is Broadway & Playbill. It…
It’s time to pick your winners!!! Every year I have a Tony Award Pool right here on my blog. Â And this year is no different. Actually that’s not true. Â This year is differe…
We had one of those terrific stories about an understudy blowing the roof off the joint a few weeks ago, when relative unknown but West End vet, Ria Jones, subbed in for a sickly Glenn Cl…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending May 8th, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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While typing the title of this blog, I wanted to call John Doyle, “Sir John Doyle.” I don’t know why. Â Maybe it’s the accent. Â Or maybe it’s because his p…
Now that the Tony noms are out and about, we can get back to our regularly scheduled podcast (which normally gets released on Monday) . . . Sit in a room with Leigh Silverman for a few minut…
It’s #Hamiltime! Hamilton just made history (ironic, wouldn’t you say?) when it garnered 16 Tony Nominations this morning, besting The Producers and Billy Elliot. As usu…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending May 1st, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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As you’re reading this, the Tony Award nominators are holed up somewhere deciding theatrical history. I know, I know, that sounds dramatic (pun intended) but it’s not. Â There …
It was a helluva ride. After a decade of crushing it, three days ago, Apple  admitted that some of its fruit may be spoiling. In their quarterly earnings announcement, one of the largest …
“Our long national nightmare is over.” Those were the words Kelly Ripa uttered (to laughs and a standing ovation) when she came back to her “2nd home” of a TV showÂ�…
Let’s play a game. Guess how much of an economic impact Broadway had on New York City in the 2014-2015 season. Go on . . . guess. How much money was made by other businesses in the cit…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending April 24th, 2016.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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The Broadway touring business is often called “The Road.” If that’s the case, then Booking Agents are the traffic cops, giving the green light to some, sending some right, …
Every theater has dark time. Even if it’s continuously booked like the Gershwin Theatre where Wicked will be defying gravity for the next several decades for sure . . . even the Ger…
If you want your kid to write for the musical theater, and write well, you might want to start by naming him Stephen. Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz and this week’s guest, the othe…
