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 a…
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 migh…
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…
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 Awa…
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’…
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 ca…
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 h…
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 thin…
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…
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-romanticÃ…
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…
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…
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 Co…
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,̶…
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 t…
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 f…
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…
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. A…
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 th…
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 somethi…
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 …
What I love about Broadway is that there is no one path to becoming a Producer.  Everyone who gets their name above the title comes at it from their own unique angle.  We’ve got …
There have been quite a few faux-historical mashups in our recent theatrical past, like the popular Off Broadway fair Freud’s Last Session, which put C.S. Lewis and Freud in the …
Since I started blogging six years ago, I’ve received countless emails from folks around the world asking for information about Broadway budgets. “Can I see one?” “Ho…
The first lesson I learned from Mrs. Beasley, my Kindergarten teacher, was to share. It wasn’t easy, but I did it.  And when I shared, people shared with me.  And we both were ha…