Friday, May 15, 2015
After a very well received workshop, and after Side Show posted a premature closing notice, Something Rotten! pulled out of their out-of-town tryout to come straight in to Broadway. How&…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 14, 2015
You thought I forgot about these, didn’t ya? Usually after one of my “Get Your Show Off The Ground” seminars, I post five takeaways that I think may appeal to all of you (c…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
I only applied to five colleges. And ironically, I didn’t graduate from any of them. I spent a year at Johns Hopkins University as a pre-law dude and ended up spending more time doin…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, May 11, 2015
Joseph, Evita, Chess . . . Beauty and the Mother-Humpin’ Beast. These are just a few of the shows that Sir Timothy Rice wrote the lyrics to (obviously I got a little excited about that…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, May 8, 2015
Leave it to Avenue Q. The little-show-that-could, which is now in its 12th year in New York, after besting Wicked for the Tony, running six years on Broadway and now in its sixth Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 7, 2015
I fell for the hype. You all know about my rule of three. If three people go out of their way to tell me about something, then I listen. That rule applies to recommended books, people to t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
I was lunching with an ex-big time Broadway dancer last week (who has since moved on to become a big time business guy) and I asked him how he managed to break into the chorus lines of so m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, May 4, 2015
I met the award winning actor and author Charles Busch (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, etc.) just a couple of weeks ago, and immediately asked him to do m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, May 1, 2015
What I love about all TED Talks is that they’re great to just put on while you’re munching on your turkey on rye or your Caesar salad wrap or your 10 piece McNugget meal with ext…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 30, 2015
Yesterday we came to grips with the fact that not everyone out there is going to like you. And in today’s era of the empowered consumer, angry customers no longer have to sit down an…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
Let’s play a game. Below is a quote from an actual Yelp review of a Broadway show. Guess which one: The storyline was predictable and weak and quite BORING. I was totally falling asl…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Whew. The 2015 Tony Nominations are finally out. Everyone can breathe now. Well, everyone can breathe unless you’re in Harvey Weinstein’s office. Those guys and gals might wa…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 27, 2015
It wasn’t too long ago that there were only two advertising agencies that serviced the bulk of Broadway shows. Then Elizabeth Furze came to town. “Liz” is the co-head of AK…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 24, 2015
There are a lot of people that are going to have a sleepless weekend. How can you relax if you’re just days away from finding out if you’re gonna get nominated for a Tony Award…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:28AMThursday, April 23, 2015
We get a lot of script submissions. Sometimes they are emailed to us. Sometimes they get mailed to us. Sometimes they get pressed on us when we’re at an industry event (I don’t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
You remember the BlackBerry? It wasn’t too long ago that the BlackBerry was the coolest device around. I wanted one big time. And when I had one, I thought I was the hippest cat ar…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 20, 2015
You might think a podcast featuring one of the most powerful casting directors in the biz is just for the actors out there. And why sure, if you’re an actor, you’re going to hea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 17, 2015
When it was announced that James Corden was taking over The Late Late Show I cried a little. Why was I so verklempt? Because when I saw Jimbo in One Man, Two Guvnors I remember thinking, …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 16, 2015
You ever cruise Facebook or Twitter, and see a page that hasn’t been updated in awhile? And I’m not talking days or weeks . . . but months . . . years even. You know what I&#…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
The truth is . . . I love me some Lloyd Webber. Whether we’re talking old school JCS or Joseph, the classic Phantom (the first Broadway show I ever saw), the uber-romantic Aspects…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Were you surprised??? On Sunday, Hillary Clinton announced that she was running for President! This is my shocked face. Ok, so no one was taken aback by the news . . . but some folks wer…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 13, 2015
One of the first people that a Broadway Producer hires when he or she sets out to produce a show is his or her attorney. So, I thought it was about time we heard from one. It’s a fasci…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 10, 2015
Hundreds entered. Only ten remain. This is . . . The Davenport Songwriting Games! Dum-dum-dum. This is it. The day we announce the ten finalists in my Second Annual Songwriting Contest.…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 9, 2015
I got an email from a blog reader three weeks and four days ago, asking me the simple question of what I thought the definition of that crazy french-formed word, “entrepreneur,”…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
You know what this past Monday was? That’s right . . . it was opening day for the 2015 Major League Baseball season. Everywhere I went, people were talking about it. I woke up to DJ…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
If you fell for my April Fools’ joke last week, you weren’t the only one. I got tons of emails, tweets and slaps on the back for announcing I was building a Broadway theater fro…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 6, 2015
I can’t draw. I can’t decorate. And the bird house I built in shop class was only valuable for the air rights. So I’m in serious awe of all designers. But it’s …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 3, 2015
More than half my consulting clients are writers. At each of our sessions, I give them all three action items to help them get their show to the next “stage” of development. And…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 2, 2015
You gave me an idea. While typing up my last Get Your Show Off The Ground takeaway blog, I thought . . . since GYSOTG was my first and is still my most popular seminar, why not take this s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
I’ve written about the theater crunch on Broadway a bunch of times . . . and I got to thinking the other day, it’s time for me to stop writing about it and start doing something…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Hold on to your offering documents, people, because raising money for businesses, including Broadway shows, just got easier. Several years (!) after Congress passed the JOBS Act, the SEC fi…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM 
