Thursday, December 1, 2011
Well, well, well, would you look at this! The House of Reps down in DC passed a bill recently that's near and dear to my heart called the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. In what is being…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHey, readers, here is your monthly recap of what posts you were the most engaged with over the past 30 days. The most read post of the month: Extra! Extra! Read all about it . . . The most c…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:30AMWednesday, November 30, 2011
If you're a basketball fan, you've been foaming at the mouth and ornery to everyone you know for the past couple o' months, as you've suffered through B-Ball withdrawal thanks to the lockout…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, November 29, 2011
26 Weeks down. 26 to go. The 2011-12 Broadway season is half over and already people are wondering . . . will we shatter another sales record? Well, so far, so good. The first 26 weeks of th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, November 28, 2011
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 27, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $313,879 5,136 69.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 04:48PMI don't watch that much TV anymore. And none of it is live. What I do is pick a word-of-mouth recommended series available to watch instantly on Netflix and watch a few episodes a week while…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSunday, November 27, 2011
Another week, another Broadway musical! Special thanks to the Producers of Bonnie & Clyde, the sponsors of this week's Sunday Giveaway. One of you will get two free tickets to see B&…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, November 25, 2011
It's 12:38 AM as I type. We're 38 minutes into Black Friday, and I know a bunch of people at brick and mortar stores right this very second. In the middle of dessert at the Thanksgiving dinn…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, November 24, 2011
There's a whole bunch of things about the theater industry that I wish were a whole lot . . . different. But despite all that, on a day like Thanksgiving, it's important to remember that whi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Advertising isn't about impressions. It's about conversions. Someone could offer me a free 1,000,000 piece direct mail for Godspell to citizens in Sri Lanka and it would be just about worthl…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
As has become the custom here at TPP, here is a list of just five of the takeaways from this past weekend’s Get Your Show Off The Ground Seminar. Sending out unsolicited scripts is like an…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, November 21, 2011
Confucius say, "Anything that can be done big, can be done small." Ok, he didn't really say that, but it doesn't make it any less true. Case in point. When big Broadway shows "…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 20, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN $358,956 4,701 74.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSunday, November 20, 2011
It's been called "one of the greatest musicals never to play New York" . . . and now, Kander and Ebb's The Visit, starring Chita Rivera and John Cullum, will be presented in the ci…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, November 18, 2011
Save the date, PPers, it's time for the Producer's Perspective offline event of the year, the Producer's Perspective social. (insert sound of "whoop whoop" here) Don't know what th…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, November 17, 2011
One of the greatest gifts Twitter has given brands is the ability to electronically eavesdrop on conversations about their products. "@XXX airlines sucks! Waited for three hours on tarm…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Yep. Finish it with me . . . Why not a play club . . . or a musical club. Right? My mission as a theater professional is to amplify the conversation about the theater. More people talking ab…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Sure you know about WOM, but do you know about WOMMA? WOMMA is the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (yep - if it exists, there's probably an organization to support it - and if there isn'…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, November 14, 2011
Veteran's Day was this past weekend, and it had me singing Madonna in the shower this morning. If we took a holiday Took some time to celebrate Just one day out of life It would be, it would…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThe following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 13, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $748,355 7,390 90.03% $101.27 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSI…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMSunday, November 13, 2011
What's this? A brand new musical opening on Broadway this Fall without star casting and that isn't based on a movie or a superhero? Ok, that's not exactly true. Lysistrata may be one of the …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSaturday, November 12, 2011
To buy tickets to Private Lives on Broadway click the link below: BUY PRIVATE LIVES TICKETS! - - - - - - - - - - Here is the official information for Private Lives on Broadway: About Private…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 04:49PMFriday, November 11, 2011
When pricing a show these days, whether it's on Broadway or in any theater around the country, there are four categories a producer needs to consider. Premium Price Regular Price Discount Pr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, November 10, 2011
In the middle of a negotiation recently, someone tried the ol', "I've been in this business for 20 years," line. I waited, thought for a second and then realized the for the first …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
There aren't many training programs for commercial theater producers. And only one is affiliated with The Broadway League. If you don't know about CTI, you should check it out. Under the lea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, November 8, 2011
At my subway station, I've got two newspaper guys competing to give away all of their free morning papers. You know the ones I'm talking about right? The news in them is just about the same,…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, November 7, 2011
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 6, 2011: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm ANYTHING GOES $697,433 6,928 84.41% $100.67 BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSIC…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 05:44PM. . . thank you. There's a lot of people that will be joining me at Circle in the Square tonight who helped make the first ever revival of Godspell happen. There is Stephen Schwartz, and Dan…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMSunday, November 6, 2011
A lot of folks don't think of Broadway Producers as Entrepreneurs. But when you think about it, we are all serial start-up guys and dolls. If you produce three shows a year, you've started t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, November 4, 2011
Bye-bye October, 2011! Take your freaky snow storm with you. Now let's see what kept you warm during this weirdly cool month: The most read post of the month: Taxi! Take me to Broadway! The …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:16AMI love a good challenge, but let me tell you something . . . I'd rather market a pile of poop than Paris Hilton. Luckily, for Miss P, Jason Moore, her manager for 9 years (who is not related…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM 
