Monday, May 19, 2014
Ok, so . . . I had a feeling the Ghostlight Awards would be popular (a job of a producer is to do things that they think are going to be popular, of course), but I had no flippin’ idea…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, May 16, 2014
Yesterday, I talked about how I was inspired by a comment from a social media panel that discussed the importance of speed in modern marketing, especially in terms of social media. And whil…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 15, 2014
One of Tuesday more fascinating panels at the Broadway League Conference was one entitled, Equip Your Army; Why Content is King, and featured a troop of social media experts from YouTube, G…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Yesterday was the very first day of the annual Broadway League Spring Road Conference, when all the members of the Broadway League are invited to NYC to share in three days of seminars and s…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
The original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story was a big hit. It ran 732 performances. Music Man, which bested it for the Tony Award, ran 1,375 performances. The original My F…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, May 12, 2014
Recent research reports indicate that a whopping 37 million people in the US speak Spanish in the home, making this Latino-language the most spoken non-English language in this country, by m…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, May 9, 2014
Sometimes I think choosing what to put in your bio for a new show can be more stressful than the opening itself! Do you include that Off Off Broadway show? Do you thank your parents? …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 8, 2014
One of my readers is a Medium. No, I’m not talking about his t-shirt size. I mean, he hears the voices of Dead People. And after last week’s blog about Adaptations (which got…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Everyone knows that January/February and back-to-school September are tough times for Broadway box offices. When I’m producing a show, I call these traditional sales slump periods &…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Ok, it’s time to get past the talk of who was nominated and who wasn’t nominated and how there really should have been five nominees for Best Musical (couldn’t resist, sorr…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, May 5, 2014
Business Rule #679: If your competition does something successfully, do something similar. It’s not the most original business axiom in the book, (I’d rather be a business lead…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, May 2, 2014
This blog is all about trying to crack the Broadway code. What can we do to increase our odds of success? Research? New economic models? Stars? All of that analysis is essential, esp…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, May 1, 2014
One of my more popular blogs over the years was this ol’ chestnut from back in 2008 (!) about adaptations on Broadway, and specifically the number of movies being turned into musicals.…
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: Announcing the first ever Ghostlight Awards – fo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
There’s a point in almost every entrepreneur and artist’s life when they feel stuck. You know what I’m taking about, don’t you? You’re at a point in your ca…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Three things you can count on: death, taxes, and the Tony Award Nominations being all over the map. As usual, this morning’s noms caused the usual amount of jumping up and down, cry…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHere are this year’s Tony Award nominations: Best Play Act One All The Way Casa Valentina Mothers and Sons Outside Mullingar Best Musical After Midnight Aladdin Beautiful – The Car…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 09:14AMMonday, April 28, 2014
I’ve been around for some nervous awards seasons, but nothing tops this one. The sheer volume of competition this year has made the nomination announcements seem like the actual awar…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 25, 2014
In a new advertisement, uh I mean article, in the Hollywood Reporter, the legendary music producer Clive Davis took the new Broadway musicals of the last couple of decades to task in an effo…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHere are this year’s Drama Desk Award nominations: Outstanding Play Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club Steven Levenson, Core Values Conor McPherson, The Night Alive Richard Nelson, Reg…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMThursday, April 24, 2014
A few years ago, around Halloween, pop-up costume stores starting appearing in empty street-level shops, doing a ton of biz in a short period of time. The retailer was happy. The landlor…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
I’m jealous of the West End. They’ve got lower costs for labor, crowdfunding, and they let you eat ice cream in your seats. And they have also gotten their hands on some very pop…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Some of you out there probably read the subject of this blog and thought, “Only 3?” And you’re right, I could probably write another 4,000 posts on my issues with the stat…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMHere are this year’s Outer Critics Circle Award nominations: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY Act One Casa Valentina All The Way Outside Mullingar The Realistic Joneses OUTSTANDING NEW BR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 10:45AMMonday, April 21, 2014
There is a simple rule in the research industry: Never ask for feedback, unless you’re prepared to do something with the results. As you all know, I’m a huge fan of surveys and f…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 18, 2014
So get this noise . . . Today is my 4,000th post. I really can’t believe it, but it’s true. Since I started bloggin’ back in 2008 (!), I’ve written four-freakinR…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMThursday, April 17, 2014
The Olivier Awards were Sunday night. And as I tweeted, The Book of Mormon shockingly took home the big prize of Best New Musical. (In case you can’t read ‘tone’ throu…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
It takes hundreds of people to put on one Broadway show. But only a max of a few dozen are ever seen on a stage. The rest of ‘em are backstage, offstage, in orchestra pits and in dre…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
I would never have produced The Flick. I will never produce The Flick. I can’t. You see, I’m a Broadway producer. Not a theater producer. I produce for a 10 block radius in t…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Part of my personal curse (and also one of my best business assets) is that I’m always looking for the best deal. I want the best deal on airfare, on office supplies, on everything! …
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AMFriday, April 11, 2014
I found ‘em. I found the stars that will replace in Les Miz. (Cameron, you can thank me later.) I just did a Fun on a Friday blog last week, so I normally wouldn’t put one up a…
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