Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Tough love. I had to give a little TL to a client who wanted to take the play to Broadway. It wasn’t that I didn’t think the play was good. I just didn’t think it belonge…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
‘Tis the season! Turkey and Trimmings . . .and Tourists! And . . . of course, gifts! If shopping for that special Producer in your life has got your spreadsheets in a knot, fear not,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, November 19, 2012
It has been three years since I first started my Get Your Show Off The Ground seminars, and they just get more fun each and every time I have one. And this past Saturday’s seminar was …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 18, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $533,800 10,229 86.92% $52.18 AN ENEMY OF THE …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMFriday, November 16, 2012
It took me six months to get a reservation, and it costs about as much as a Macbook Air, but I finally realized a dream this week and ate at Per Se, a Thomas Keller restaurant that is one of…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, November 15, 2012
So much of the training we receive for our professions has nothing to do with our professions. It has to do with our lives. How we were raised, how we spent our childhood, and, yes, our ho…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Just look at what our friends in film on the left coast have done! Over the past ten years, as movies have become more difficult to finance, Producer Credit has been added to the perk list f…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
My acting teacher used to ask about my motivation in a thick Russian accent. “Kenneth! Why you . . . you do want do these things in scene?” (BTW, my mom, my dad, and my acting …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, November 12, 2012
CTI, The Commercial Theater Institute, is THE place to train if you’re looking for a classroom like education in producer training. It’s like the Parris Island for Producers. The…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 11, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $461,281 7,225 68.13% $63.85 AN ENEMY OF THE P…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSunday, November 11, 2012
Ok, Nation’s Capital . . . this giveaway is for you. As a thank you for putting up with all the politicking that’s been going on these past two years, we’re giving away t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Remember that strangely in-poor-taste ad I blogged about on Monday? MSG pulled it. They pulled the whole campaign, actually . . . because Broadway wasn’t the only group the org offende…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, November 8, 2012
I have to say that I never thought we’d still be dealing with the aftermath of that nasty little wench named Sandy more than seven days after she swept onto our shores. I’ve seen a lot o…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
The NY Times scooped me this past week, with an article or two that I’ve been thinking about doing myself: the influx of Hollywood Players to the Broadway Producing game. While we…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
. . . I voted. and I hope you did too. I love the theater. Even though it frustrates me sometimes. And unfortunately some of the issues that frustrate me are things that I can’t ch…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, November 5, 2012
Have you seen this ad on a phone kiosk near you? Sorry if the photo isn’t as clear as it should be, but my hands were shaking from irritation when I took it. It features a photo of a K…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 04, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $142,175 2,756 61.14% $51.59 ANNIE $638,7…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThursday, November 1, 2012
Both are playing Broadway this season. Tyson did a few rounds with us this summer, and now, the guy “who wrote the songs” recently announced that he is coming back to Broadway fo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTime for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer’s Perspective: The most read post of the month: Poor Rebecca. What happened to that girl? The…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Back in June of 2009, I blogged about the first video billboard in Times Square and predicted that they’d soon be seen up and down the Great White Way. Well, today, three years later, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
As if this storm wasn’t enough. Tomorrow night, box offices on and off Broadway will face another disaster. This one is called Halloween. Halloween is a horrible night for ticket sal…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, October 29, 2012
If you subscribe to this blog via email, then you get it delivered to your inbox every night at 8 PM. 8 PM. Get it? Curtain time! Except tonight up and down and on and off Broadway, no c…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 28, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $212,257 3,678 71.39% $57.71 ANNIE $703,12…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Yesterday, I chatted about the next current generation of Broadway group audiences, aka The Party Market. Today I’m going to give you five tips about those party people that will hopef…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, October 25, 2012
Traditional Group Sales for Broadway Shows accounts for about 9% of all Broadway sales, from what my statistical spies tell me. And when I say “Traditional Group Sales”, I mean…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Talk to tourists about where they get tickets to Broadway shows, and a lot of them will say, “The Tickets Booth” or “That red place in the middle of Times Square” or …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Last year, fellow cage-rattlers Jim McCarthy, Damian Bazadona and I, introduced the first ever TEDx Broadway. We got some great speakers in a room and posed the question, “What’…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, October 22, 2012
I’m in Orlando, Florida as I type this, prepping to speak at Elliott Masie’s Learning 2012 Conference with the likes of Susan Cain, Jenny Zhu and Colin Powell (!). What the eff…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 21, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $217,806 3,803 73.82% $57.27 ANNIE $733,95…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMFriday, October 19, 2012
If you have a Ferrari, and there were suddenly some sputtering sounds coming from the inside of that V8, would you take it to the local mechanic down the block? Heck no, you wouldn’t. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, October 18, 2012
One of the most fun and educational initiatives we did on Godspell was our Creator’s Commentary. We got Stephen Schwartz and helmer Danny Goldstein to watch the show, and comment on …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM 
