2,028 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Boom. That sound you heard was the massive amount of monetary impact Broadway has on the New York City economy. The latest financial ramification report was released last week by the Broadwa…
Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer's Perspective: The most read post of the month:Â And the nominees for the 1st annual Ghostlight Awa…
If you asked a bunch of Broadway Producers why they got into the theater business, you’d hear a long litany of responses . . . and you know what wouldn’t be anywhere on that list…
I don’t have them. But, I know some people that do. And those secret-holders are gonna be featured on a panel this coming Sunday, June 1st, sponsored by our good ol’ friends at t…
To quote Queen, “Another one bites the dust! Â And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust!” The one I’m referring to, of course, is the Broadw…
Sweet Jumpin’ You-Know-Who! We got almost four thousand votes for the first annual Ghostlight Awards! I just love it.  It just shows how much support and love there is for those …
I try to come up with ideas for blogs . . . well, I try to come up with them all the time. Â And I have what I think are some good ones lined up for the next week or so (including one abou…
The London revival of Miss Saigon opened this past Wednesday night. 24 hours later, Producer Cameron Mackintosh announced that it had already recouped. I mean, wowza. I’ve been a pa…
I’m predicting a new Law & Order SVU-like spin-off. Â Law & Order: Â CCU (Cyber Crimes Unit). One of their first “ripped from the headlines” plots would be this…
Yesterday’s blog, as well as my acceptance speech for last year’s Broadway.com Audience Award for Macbeth, was about paying respect to those above-the-title producers out t…
First there was last year’s NY Times article about the rising cost of the Tony Award (and I’m not talking about how expensive it is to produce a show that wins a Tony Award or th…
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…
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 wh…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 paren…
One of my readers is a Medium. No, I’m not talking about his t-shirt size. Â I mean, he hears the voices of Dead People. Â And after last week’s blog about Adaptations (which…
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 perio…
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…
Business Rule #679: Â 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 le…
This blog is all about trying to crack the Broadway code. Â What can we do to increase our odds of success? Â Research? Â New economic models? Â Stars? All of that analysis is essent…
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.…
Time for that monthly summary of what got your attention last month here at The Producer's Perspective: The most read post of the month:Â Announcing the first ever Ghostlight Awards " for …
