2,028 stories by "Ken Davenport"
Last Thursday, I announced that Hunter Chancellor won our very first Associate Producer Scholarship on my upcoming production of The Scottish Play Macbeth. Â (Alan says we can say it where…
If you haven’t heard, Rob Thomas, the creator of the Veronica Mars television series, launched a “Make The Movie of VM” Kickstarter campaign recently, in an effort to make …
What a day I had on Tuesday. For three hours, 12 future Broadway-Producers-To-Be and I talked all things theater, including marketing, financing, and why the show that I wish I would have pr…
I stumbled on this website recently that had a bunch of great tips on writing from folks like David Ogilvy and Henry Miller . . . but it was Ol’ Kurt Vonnegut’s tips on writing a…
Before I begin this blog, let me say, I believe brokers have a place in our business. Â And in most businesses, actually. Â The free market system should allow an individual or a busines…
Miss this year's TEDxBroadway? Curious as to where I got my "takeaways?” Or were you there and do you just miss TEDxBroadway? And now you’re jonesin’ to re-see speakers lik…
Whenever I scan a production budget for a new show, and see that hefty figure allocated to the opening night party, the scrooge in me always takes over and wonders, "What if we didn't have a…
Thanks to the glorious thing that is cable television, I watched one of my favorite 80s movies over the weekend . . . Wargames . . . starring none other than Nice Work if You Can Get It's Ma…
Remember that time I said we’d have 10 Finalists for the Macbeth Associate Producer Scholarship? Well, because we received an inbox-clogging several hundred applications, I’m …
A news alert from my neighbors upstairs! Â (Did you know I was in the same building as NYMF? Â Well, ya do now!) NYMF’s annual networking extravaganza is this coming Saturday, Marc…
A great lesson in business comes to us today from a new company called Pogoseat, who has developed some brand new software that could have a serious application in the theater. Remember that…
It’s trivia week here at the Producer’s Perspective! Â Yesterday a Sondheim stat and now take a look at this: We all know that print advertising is on the decline, right? Well,…
Everyone knows that the great Mr. S. has had a major impact on the Broadway stage, right? Well, get this. Our office just noticed that there isn’t a show with songs by our “Shake…
There’s something you never thought I’d say, right? Well, I didn’t. But Gary Emmanuel, who happens to be one of the brilliant lawyers that made my crowd-funded Broadway pro…
It’s been over a week since Seth MacFarlane offended a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) and Anne Hathaway pi$$ed off a whole bunch of people (did people expect less?) at…
I remember when I was just starting out in the biz and thought I knew everything about sales. And then I met a box office treasurer and realized I didn’t know nuthin’. Why sure, …
Musical theater writers out there are facing the exact same problem that popular music writers/artists faced years ago: Â the internet has made it waaaaay too easy to steal their work. See…
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: Wanna be an Associate Producer? Introducing the …
Yesterday we refuted the notion that the number of new plays and new musicals were on a precipitous decline over the last thirty years. Today we’ve got a couple more graphs for you, bu…
I read a quote recently which lamented the fact that there weren’t as many new plays on Broadway anymore. At first, my head started a-nodding in agreement. Â It’s easy to jump …
I love a Broadway Q3 Report. Â Cuz it tells me that spring is right around the corner. And spring brings warm weather, warmer hellos from formerly frigid NYers, and higher grosses thanks t…
I first met Larry Peyton, the President of Celebrity Attractions, a Tulsa based Presenting and Producing house, in 1999, when I was the Company Manager of the National Tour of Jekyll & H…
Spoiler alert: Â If you work at or run a non-profit, I’ll bet you your endowment, you’re not going to like this post. Yesterday I put in a call to a vendor I have not worked wi…
When The Book of Mormon was prepping for its first performance, a lot of folks thought the Mormon Church was prepping for a protest to take place outside the theater. Many industry insiders …
On my birthday last August, I wrote a blog about my concern for the lack of Broadway Producers under the age of 40. Â Our research indicated that only 8% of the Producers in the Broadway L…
