2,028 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Remember that time NYMF used to be in the fall? Not anymore! In 2012, the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the world’s most popular festival exclusively for the development of new mu…
You should all be concert promoters. For this week’s giveaway, I challenged you all to come up with a trio of performers (living or dead) for a one-night-only concert, and I can honest…
So, whadda ya think? Do you like the new look of the blog? Â (If you’re reading this blog via email, click here to check out my fresh new summer look!) Believe it or don’t beli…
Every time it pours down rain in our fair New York City, a bunch of pop-up umbrella shops emerge on every street corner. I used to give those hungry weather watchers a lot of credit. Â The…
Gooaaaaaaaaaaaaaal! Is it just me or has everyone gone World Cup Crazy? It’s been four years since the last Cup, and I don’t remember the volume of the soccer conversation in thi…
Back in the frigid cold of January (remember that single degree nonsense?), we announced the opening of The Davenport Theatre, named after my dear old grandpa, Delbert Essex Davenport (we ju…
As we’ve done for the last several years, the morning after The Tony Awards, we put together a survey to find out what you, the passionate Broadway lover, thought about the Tony Awards…
"The Tonys are rigged."
I've heard that phrase uttered many times by a bunch of my producing peers. Of course, I've usually heard it on Tony night, a couple hours after the last winners …
Post Tony Fallout used to mean which shows would close after the Producers did their analyses of their Monday sales, with many praying for bumps from the telecast before, or a ton of awards …
In case you missed it, a show closed recently without ever having opened. Back before all the Tony Award hoopla, the Broadway bound production of Titanic hit an iceberg.  (Ironicall…
Okey dokey smokey, the accounting firm of the Davenport Theatrical Interns has finished their audit of our Tony Pool entries and they have selected a winner. But first, How did I do? Eh. I m…
Were you inspired by the Tonys? Â Did it make you want to get out and audition for something? Â Produce something? Or . . . drumroll please . . . write something? Have we got that someth…
Well, that’s it. Â Put a fork in the 2013-14 season, because she is done. Â Now that the 2014 Tony Awards have been dished out, it’s time for everyone in the industry to dish…
The Friday before the Tony Awards. It’s the last chance for water cooler talk about who will win, until Monday morning when the cooler chitter chatter will be all about who won . . . a…
"Can you repeat that?" I asked, even though I had heard the question perfectly clear. "What's the biggest mistake a Producer or an Entrepreneur can make?" I think the reason I didn't want to…
A bunch of years ago I looked into commissioning a playwright to write a backstage comedy about the business of Broadway. More specifically,  I wanted this play set at a Broadway ad me…
It’s inevitable. When you have a set of awards that precede a bigger set of awards, people start asking . . . “Does the winner of the first mean that they are a shoe-in for the s…
