Friday, July 6, 2012
Want to know what really gets my engine going? 1. Data. 2. When experts from outside of our industry analyze our data. Ohhhh yeah. Just typing that gets me all a-tingley. So imagine how …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, July 5, 2012
If it feels like I just wrote one of these posts, it’s because I did. It hasn’t even been nine months since the last New York Musical Theatre Festival, and here we are again, rea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
I’ve written about adaptations a bunch of times on this blog, including this entry which detailed the rise of movie-based musicals over the past 30 years (from 6% to 19% of new musical…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, July 2, 2012
I was strolling through Saks on a weak weekend for Broadway tickets recently, and I noticed something interesting . . . there was hardly anyone in the store shopping for clothes, just like t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending July 1, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $349,304 5,237 56.05% $66.70 ANYTHING GOES $50…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMFriday, June 29, 2012
We lost Robin Gibb, one of the founding brothers of the iconic pop group The Bee Gees, over a month ago. Obviously their music will live on for decades to come . . . but the words they d…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Ok, so we don’t have the Beacon Theatre, or Neil Patrick Harris hosting, or even a performance from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship (!) . . . but this is still pretty exciting, isn’…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
We so want it to work. But it just never, ever does. Ok, here’s the back story: JC Penney is sucking sales wind. JC Penney hires formed Apple retail chief Ron Johnson as CEO to rev…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Good question. There’s been a lot of buzz about the recently signed JOBS Act and just what all the jargon and legalese in its many pages means to us out here pounding the pavement look…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, June 22, 2012
Ahhhh, irony, thy name is young people. At 9 out of 10 ad meetings I attend, the topic of getting more young people always comes up. And despite many concentrated and intelligent efforts, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, June 21, 2012
Can you tell that I can’t get enough of the Tony Awards? The telecast and all of its post-appearance residue are keeping me up at night lately. It’ll probably take weeks for me…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
I have a travel outfit. I sleep on planes (sometimes more than I do at home), so I snuggle up in a pair of cozy track pants, the softest and loosest long sleeve shirt I can find, and a sweat…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Talk about a Broadway buzz kill. After last year’s raging success of a Tony show (everyone was so nervous about taking the show from Radio City to The Beacon – and then they real…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Anecdotal evidence (aka Water Cooler and Twitter talk) told me that overall people were pleased with this performance packed Tony Awards telecast, but maybe not as much as last year. But y…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, June 15, 2012
You couldn’t sleep last night, could you? You were on edge with anticipation . . . who will be nominated for the first ever Broadway Marketing Awards? Will it be your favorite show? …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Maybe I’ve still got Award Fever, but as I was watching the Tonys on Sunday I couldn’t help but think . . . we’ve got lots of Awards from lots of different organizations fo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Producing shows can be one of the most rewarding professions on the planet. Watching audience members smile and laugh and cry as they take in a show that you helped put together is just aw…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
There were more shockers in this year’s Tonys than in Next to Normal! (Get it?) And the number of those surprises affected all of our scores. In last year’s Tony Pool, we had T…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, June 11, 2012
The curtain has come down on yet another Broadway season. That sound you hear in the distance is the opening of many a Fire Island and Hampton home as the industry gets ready to hibernate …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending June 10, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $299,235 4,760 50.94% $62.86 ANYTHING GOES $4…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Every year I post my Tony Award predictions alongside YOUR predictions (derived from what the majority of you think is going to win based on your answers in my Tony Pool). Well, this year I …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:30AMThursday, June 7, 2012
The subject of this blog is from an email I got from a reader just last weekend, and wouldn’t you know it, two days ago the Broadway League’s Economic Impact report arrived on my…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, June 4, 2012
We had hoped to announce the finalists for our 10 Minute Play contest last Friday . . . but frankly, we were overwhelmed with so many submissions . . . and so many damn good ones . . . that …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending June 3, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $299,657 4,900 52.44% $61.15 ANYTHING GOES $41…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMFriday, June 1, 2012
I don’t think I ever saw Edgar “Buddy” Freitag without a smile on his face. I first met him at an ad meeting for Blithe Spirit. He, and his equally smile-icious wife, Bar…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThanks to a calendar snafu, we skipped a few months of these “popular posts” entries, but we’re all caught up now. Click here to see all others. In case this entry is new…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThursday, May 31, 2012
First, let me say that the idea I’m going to propose below probably isn’t practical anymore. Unfortunately for all of us, the number of theater critics has dwindled in recent y…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Buzzer sound! The fourth and final quarter of the 2012 Broadway season is over. Can you believe it? Another year come and gone. And this one was a beaut . . . depending on how you look…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, May 29, 2012
I first met Sarah Galbraith when I was Company Managing Thoroughly Modern Millie. She was the Bookkeeper on the show, and we hit it off instantly. (Bookkeepers are the go-between with sh…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending May 27, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $418,337 6,214 66.50% $67.32 ANYTHING GOES $47…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSunday, May 27, 2012
There’s a brand spanking new place to see stuff and a new place to be seen that just opened up called . . . 54 Below. Where is it? Below Studio 54. It’s kind of a mashup of Bar C…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM 
