Broadway Grosses* w/e 2/22/2015 by Dte

The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 22nd, 2015. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League Read more here:

Speaking of Britain, how's the Business? by Ken Davenport

I always report on the end of year figures for Broadway, and even give you the quarterly reports as well (stay tuned for next week’s 3rd Quarter results, which I expect to be fascin…

Are we experiencing another British invasion? by Ken Davenport

I don’t know about you, but it feels like everywhere I look this Broadway season, someone is talking with a British accent. We’ve got Curious Incident and Queen Elizabeth and tha…

Why theater owners should produce more . . . again. by Ken Davenport

Back in the day, the theater owners were some of the most prolific Producers on Broadway.  They produced in part by necessity . . . if their theaters were dark and they needed a booking, …

Brian Williams should have been a playwright, not a reporter. by Ken Davenport

Oh, Brian. You're so dramatic. You were shot down. You got dysentery. You saved puppies. (I mean, puppies, Brian? You brought sweet, innocent little puppies into your stories?) Ok, true or n…

Broadway Grosses* w/e 2/15/2015 by Dte

The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 15th, 2015. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League Read more here:

Podcast Episode #7 " All about The Roundabout with Artistic Director, Todd Haimes. by Ken Davenport

Everyone on the commercial side of the industry thinks the non-profits have it so easy.  They can take donations, stars will work for scale, and so on.  I had a feeling there was anoth…

Who won the tickets to The Avengers Exhibit in Times Square? by Ken Davenport

Imagine a group of Broadway Avengers! The ability to belt to a high C!  To do a triple time step while performing on a raked stage and rapping a Lin-Manuel Miranda tune!  To produce mu…

Fun on a Friday: A Gentleman's Guide to Subtle Marketing. by Ken Davenport

Like all of my Fun on a (Freezing) Friday blogs, this one will incite a few chuckles, for sure. But what’s great about the video you’re about to see is that it’s a pi…

Why I am producing The Visit on Broadway. by Ken Davenport

If you read the Arts & Leisure section of the NY Times in print then you may have caught a full page ad for the upcoming Broadway musical, The Visit. And if you looked closely at those n…

Day 2 of the Broadway League Conference: Going global and to the game. by Ken Davenport

Day 2 of the conference started out with a mouse sighting. Yep, Disney was in the house. But not the Disney you think.  This AM we got a talk from Andy Bird, Chairman of Walt Disney Inter…

Day 1 of the Broadway League Conference: How to engage your staff and your audience. by Ken Davenport

In case you missed my tweet from yesterday AM, I’m currently south of the Snow Line in sunny Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for the 2015 Biennial Broadway League Conference. The biennial conf…

Podcast Episode #6 " The Man people love to hate: Broadway Gossip Columnist Michael Riedel by Ken Davenport

There’s a scene in the Howard Stern movie Private Parts where a Producer exclaims that while fans of Howard Stern listen to each show for a good amount of time, the people who ha…

Broadway Grosses* w/e 2/8/2015 by Dte

The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 8th, 2015. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League Read more here:

So close I can taste the tax breaks. by Ken Davenport

If you asked Producers in town what they’d ask for if the genie from Aladdin came down and granted them three wishes, they’d probably say . . . lower stagehand costs, no discount…

What does solving a maze have to do with your show? by Ken Davenport

One of the most fun stocking stuffers I got this year was one of those Money Mazes. Don’t know what I’m talking about? The Money Maze is a 3D cube with a marble inside.  Get t…

I saw the future. And it was BroadwayCon! by Ken Davenport

Well, it took awhile. Back in 2011, I blogged about the “con” revolution.  You know, ComicCon, EmeraldCityCon, DragonCon, ILikeHungarianCabinetMakingCon, and so on.  With a…

Play "Will It Recoup?" and you can win $500! by Ken Davenport

It’s back!!! After a three year hiatus, we have revived my Broadway fantasy game “Will It Recoup?” just in time for the spring season. What you say?  You don’…

Podcast Episode #5 " Marketing Magic with The Wizard of Spotco, Drew Hodges. by Ken Davenport

Sure you can study marketing in school.  You can even read books about it like I do. But there’s really only one way to master Broadway marketing, and that’s to do it.  And…

Broadway Grosses* w/e 2/1/2015 by Dte

The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending February 1st, 2015. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League Read more here:

Fun on a Friday: Techies get all musical on us. by Ken Davenport

If you thought yesterday’s blog was a little nerdified, wait until you hear about this. Every year, there’s this massive tech festival in Vegas called the Consumer Electronics Sh…

CES The Musical by Ken Davenport

If Grand Masters do it, so should you. by Ken Davenport

Nerd alert! I like chess. In fact, there was a time when I was a member of the Manhattan Chess Club.  I even took lessons from this guy, who at one point in his incredible career beat Bob…

A bust of a blizzard but what would you have done? by Ken Davenport

I woke up this morning half hoping to see mountains of snow in the streets, and people cross country skiing down 5th Avenue (I’ve seen that twice before in my twenty plus years in the …

5 Ways to sell tickets on a Snow Day. by Ken Davenport

You’ve worked so hard advertising your show, and then wham-bam-thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another, in comes Mother Nature to remind you who’s the boss. As you probably know, Broadw…