Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I really can't believe we're about to enter our 4th and final Quarter of the year. The year has flown by. It seemed like yesterday we were counting up the number of Tonys Book of Mormon was …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 27, 2012
When anyone that has an impact on our industry passes away, it has a pretty massive effect on me. But when it's someone that I've met, someone that I've worked with, and someone that inspire…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 26, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $724,239 8,214 100.07% $88.17 CHICAGO $538,849 6,753…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSunday, February 26, 2012
Ok, here's a first in the five years (!) of Producer's Perspective history! I had another giveaway all lined up for today. I had finished the blog entry and everything. And then I got a call…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, February 24, 2012
One month ago, almost to the day, several hundred passionate people converged on New World Stages for the first ever TEDxBroadway conference. It was a very exciting day, with great speakers …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 23, 2012
At the end of the life cycle of any project, whether it's a success, or a, well, not-so-success (we don't use the "F" word here), it's vital that you sit down, and take stock of wh…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, February 22, 2012
What a Saturday seminar we had this week! Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but we lowered the number of seminar participants a couple of sessions ago to give even more attention to th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
One of my New Year's resolutions was to take a break from working on my shows every once in awhile in order to work with charitable organizations. I've got some fun stuff in mind on how I ca…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 19, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $688,467 7,609 92.70% $90.48 CHICAGO $622,523 7,343 …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMMonday, February 20, 2012
As the big behemoths in the music biz try to figure out what the &#$@ they are going to do with their turned-upside-down business model, some young tech-savvy upstarts are coming with id…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSunday, February 19, 2012
This week we're giving away two tickets to the recently extended Russian Transport at The New Group starring funny girl and Saturday Night Live alum, Janeane Garofalo! Russian Transport is a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, February 17, 2012
Almost two years ago, I took a poll of all my Producing Peers in the Broadway League and asked them to give me their definition on what the &!$%# a Producer did anyway. Over 100 of them …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 16, 2012
A friend of mine who stays up on the latest in all sorts of technology sent me a link the other day for a projection-like company called ViXen, which is marketing a "visual performance …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
One of the greatest challenges of building an audience for Broadway shows is that our experience pretty much stays the same, so it's hard to get people to come back time and time again. We'r…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Crab legs aren't the only juicy things served up in Seattle these days. Brendan Kiley, an e-scribe for Seattle's The Stranger, wrote one heck of a juicy article recently, entitled, "Ten…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 13, 2012
Stuck on Act II? Need some structure to help with your structure? Want a deadline to make sure your show gets finished on time? Come to Musical Boot Camp! The writers we talk to and submit s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 12, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $578,531 6,515 79.37% $88.80 CHICAGO $401,948 5,116 …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSunday, February 12, 2012
She's baaaaaaack. And when I say She, I mean, the actress that is the reason this show even opened on Broadway in the first place. Not too long after the critics drooled all over Nina Ariand…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, February 10, 2012
. . . and here's a spoiler . . . I didn't write it. The blog was emailed to me by about three people . . . and I have a rule, whenever three or more people give me the...
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 9, 2012
Unless your name is Rumpelstiltskin, then you know that Facebook is poised to be one of the biggest public online companies since Google. Think about it. If we all followed the Peter Lynch p…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2012
My BFFs over at the Off Broadway Alliance asked me to let you know about the latest in their Off-Broadway panel series that just so happens to be . . . this Sunday! Starting at noon and fini…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Hey, don't blame me. I wanted to play Will It Recoup. After all, we've done it for three years in a row, and I have just as much fun as you do trying my luck at "Fantasy Broadway".…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, February 6, 2012
Watch Smash. Smash is the much anticipated, heavily advertised, prime time, major network, Broadway drama about the making of a Broadway musical. It's about Broadway, it's shot on Broadway, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending February 5, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $575,400 6,996 85.23% $82.25 CHICAGO $388,774 5,474 6…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSunday, February 5, 2012
You read that right . . . not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 tickets to see Nick Jonas in How To Succeed on Broadway! You could take all of the Jonas Brothers and still have room to go...
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, February 3, 2012
It's been talked about for years, and it looks like the new Telecharge.com is almost here! And it features 3-D seat maps, video content, and a whole bunch more. It's in Beta now, so it's not…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, February 2, 2012
It's time to date it up! One of our most successful events last year was our Collaborator Speed Date. If you weren’t a reader back then, a CSD is when we gather partnerless composers, libr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
I talk to lots of theatergoers: in focus groups, at the TKTS booth, in the lobby at Godspell, on the subway, on vacation, and everywhere in between. It's become somewhat of a hobby. What ama…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2012
There's a classic musical theater axiom that states within the first fifteen minutes of any musical, the lead character or protagonist must have what is known as an "I want" song. …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, January 30, 2012
If you follow me on the Facebook or the Twitter, then you know I am currently halfway around the world checking out the Japanese production of Altar Boyz. I had never been to Tokyo before (a…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending January 29, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $618,894 7,000 85.28% $88.41 CHICAGO $424,654 5,806 6…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AM 
