2,028 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Are you watching Shark Tank? I love it. You’ve got those big billionaires hearing pitches from up and coming entrepreneurs. Big money and bigger dreams are on the line. It’s grea…
You know what I love about our industry?  Of the eight or so Broadway General Managers that GM 99% of all Broadway shows, at least half of them are women.  That’s right, the t…
I try to remain super positive about our lovely little industry, even when things make me go “Ummmm?” I had one of those, “Ok, Ken, stay positive. Â Stay positive. Â No…
Four times a year, I get a group of super passionate peeps in a room, listen to what they are struggling with, and then I kickstart their shows. Â It’s the first seminar I ever taugh…
Studying demographics is like studying the ingredients in your food.  You want know what’s in there, so you can make sure it’s gonna keep you healthy for a long time to com…
There have been a ton of Broadway musical to movie adaptations over the years . . . from Chicago to Hairspray to Rent to Into the Woods. But there have been hardly any O…
Did you even know there are two Telecharge websites out there? There are. One is Telecharge.com, the one you know and love. Â The other, formerly known as BroadwayOffers.com, has now been …
There’s an interesting controversy brewing on the left coast, and it’s not about whether there should be a Sharknado III. No, this one is actually about theater. Â Yep, they no…
I haven’t thrown up since 1984. Seriously, I’m talking 31 years without as much as a dry heave. Â And that’s an extra special accomplishment when you consider the tons of…
It wasn’t too long ago that the most buzzed phrase around the biz was “The future of advertising is online.”  Broadway (and the rest of the world) got swept up in the…
Broadway used to own Times Square. Â Back in the day, if you wanted live entertainment (other than a few seedy strip clubs or the crazy homeless guy on the corner of 47th that talked about…
It has been over a week since TEDxBroadway 2015, but the inspiring words of the color-outside-the-lines speakers are still whispering in my ears as I tackle my day-to-day tasks in this color…
They’re calling it “The Dress That Broke The Internet.” I’m talking of course about that blue and black dress . . . or is it gold and white . . . wait, hold on, it…
The end of the 3rd quarter is my favorite. Â First, it means that spring is around the corner. Â And second, it signifies the beginning of our “kick” toward the end of the ye…
You probably think you know what theater owners do. It’s in their moniker – they just own theaters, right? Â So all they do is sit atop their perch and decide what shows to let…
There has been a historical amount of buzz about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s The Hamilton Mixtape (the original title) since . . . well, since he first told people he was writing it!…
They say a billion people watched the Academy Awards. Â And I was one of them. By contrast, our little engine that could of an awards show, the Tony Awards, gets an audience of 7 million. …
Yes, my blog and subsequent podcast is called The Producer’s Perspective. And yes, as crazy as it sounds, I haven’t had a Broadway Producer on the podcast! Until now! And how fit…
I always report on the end of year figures for Broadway, and even give you the quarterly reports as well (stay tuned for next week’s 3rd Quarter results, which I expect to be fascin…
I don’t know about you, but it feels like everywhere I look this Broadway season, someone is talking with a British accent. We’ve got Curious Incident and Queen Elizabeth and tha…
Back in the day, the theater owners were some of the most prolific Producers on Broadway. They produced in part by necessity . . . if their theaters were dark and they needed a booking, …
Oh, Brian. You're so dramatic. You were shot down. You got dysentery. You saved puppies. (I mean, puppies, Brian? You brought sweet, innocent little puppies into your stories?) Ok, true or n…
Everyone on the commercial side of the industry thinks the non-profits have it so easy. Â They can take donations, stars will work for scale, and so on. Â I had a feeling there was anoth…
Imagine a group of Broadway Avengers! The ability to belt to a high C! Â To do a triple time step while performing on a raked stage and rapping a Lin-Manuel Miranda tune! Â To produce mu…
Like all of my Fun on a (Freezing) Friday blogs, this one will incite a few chuckles, for sure. But what’s great about the video you’re about to see is that it’s a pi…
