Tuesday, September 13, 2011
This Sunday, the New York Times will publish one of the biggest issues of the year for arts lovers. It’s the annual Fall Preview. So, while print may not be where we’re spendin…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMMonday, September 12, 2011
I’ve always considered pre-production of Broadway shows to be in four phases, or to use a driving metaphor since I like fast cars, four gears: 1st Gear – Pre-production2nd Gear &…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMA celebration of the life and work of Broadway producer Randall L. Wreghitt will be held 1 PM Sept. 15 at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. Friends, colleagues and family will gather to rememb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMSunday, September 11, 2011
We have weekly internal marketing meetings about everything we work on here at DTE. But, as you can imagine, we’ve been focusing on Godspell more and more as our day-by-day countdown…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMSaturday, September 10, 2011
Every fall, there’s a street fair on the Upper East Side with a block dedicated just to theater. I usually take a few booths for some of my other shows, and this year I took one for�…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMFriday, September 9, 2011
Because today was the last business day before we start rehearsals on Monday, there was a flurry of activity in my office. In fact, it’s 8:23 PM right now, and about five of my staff…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMThree-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella returns to Broadway Sept. 9 to play a ruthless businessman whose estranged grown son may hold the key to success, in Terence Rattigan's Man an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 8, 2011
Although our official Meet & Greet isn’t until Monday, today, four of our cast members got a chance to say hello to each other for the first time at a recording studio in Midtown. …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMThe box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, will open for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:32PMThe box office at Circle in the Square Theatre, home to the upcoming revival of Godspell, will open for business Sept. 15 at 10 AM ET.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:31PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
As the numbers on our Day by Day countdown get closer and closer to zero, more and more opportunities for us to to speak to the media about our production of Godspell pop up. Makes sense,…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMTuesday, September 6, 2011
With only 6 days before Director Danny Goldstein dives into rehearsals, I thought it was a great time to ask Danny to walk me and my other Producers through the show, scene-by-scene, from Th…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMJay Records will release a seven-track "Songs From Ragtime" recording — representing the 2009 Broadway cast — on iTunes in the coming weeks, the label's John Yap sa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:59PMMonday, September 5, 2011
I spent Labor Day working on Godspell paperwork, including the forms required by Actors’ Equity Association for our “bond.” The bond is a financial guarantee (approximate…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMSunday, September 4, 2011
I spent the last couple of days in LA and arrived back in the city early this morning. I picked up the Sunday New York Times at JFK to read in the taxi on the way back from the airport. &#…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMSaturday, September 3, 2011
If you read my other blog, you know that I’ve got a lot of ideas. My theory is, the more the better, because honestly, they’re not all going to be great. But if you keep spit…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMFriday, September 2, 2011
There may be 41 days until performances begin, but there are less than 10 (!) days until the first rehearsal. The first day of rehearsal of any show always feels like the first day of school…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMThe Toxic Avenger, the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical about an unlikely superhero in New Jersey that played over 300 performances at Off-Broadway's New World Stages, may be he…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:50AMThursday, September 1, 2011
One of the messages of Godspell is that we are all part of one giant community, and that the members of that community should look out for one another. So, in the spirit of being a “Go…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
Godspell is a show about a unique group of people, and every single cast member plays a major role in the production. So, when designing the costumes for the show, our Director, Danny Goldst…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMGary Wilmes will step into the role of an Ohio businessman in a foreign land in the Broadway production of Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang's comedy Chinglish, which will begin previe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:45PMAdditional tour dates have been announced for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, the critically acclaimed concert act featuring the two original Evita co-stars that will p…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:11AMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Today we held our first Producer Ad Meeting, which was an opportunity for the other Above-The-Title Producers and Associate Producers on the show to hear about the ad and marketing campaign …
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMTickets for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin will go on sale exclusively to American Express Cardmembers Sept. 14 at 10 AM ET (through Sept. 30 at 11:59 PM) via Telecharge.com.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:31PMBroadway favorite Will Chase, most recently seen in Billy Elliot The Musical, has joined the cast of the new NBC series "Smash," the scripted drama-with-music series about the maki…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:13AMMonday, August 29, 2011
Today we announced the last of our Godspell cast members, including a star of “Hannah Montana” and Camp Rock, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle. Anna Maria happens to have quite a few fo…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMDisney Channel star Anna Maria Perez de Tagle is the latest to join the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Godspell.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMSunday, August 28, 2011
Since I was holed up in my apartment on this hurricane weekend, I decided to spend today on some of Godspell’s administrative details. And since we’re only two weeks away from ou…
SOURCE: Day By Day: The Producer’s Perspective at 09:00PMHurricane Irene was downgraded to Tropical Storm Irene on Aug. 28 as sun began to filter through thick clouds by noon. Much of New York City's mass transit remained shut down on Sunday, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:25PMHurricane Irene was downgraded to Tropical Storm Irene on Aug. 28 as sun began to filter through thick clouds by noon. Much of New York City's mass transit remained shut down on Sunday, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:24PMHurricane Irene was downgraded to Tropical Storm Irene on Aug. 28 as sun began to filter through thick clouds by noon. Mass transit remains shut down on Sunday, as do Broadway and many Off-B…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:11PM 
