2,028 stories by "Ken Davenport"
‘Tis the season! Â Turkey and Trimmings . . .and Tourists! And . . . of course, gifts! If shopping for that special Producer in your life has got your spreadsheets in a knot, fear no…
It has been three years since I first started my Get Your Show Off The Ground seminars, and they just get more fun each and every time I have one. And this past Saturday’s seminar was …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 18, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $533,800 10,229 86.92% $52.18 AN ENEMY OF THE …
It took me six months to get a reservation, and it costs about as much as a Macbook Air, but I finally realized a dream this week and ate at Per Se, a Thomas Keller restaurant that is one of…
So much of the training we receive for our professions has nothing to do with our professions. Â It has to do with our lives. How we were raised, how we spent our childhood, and, yes, our …
Just look at what our friends in film on the left coast have done! Over the past ten years, as movies have become more difficult to finance, Producer Credit has been added to the perk list f…
My acting teacher used to ask about my motivation in a thick Russian accent. “Kenneth! Â Why you . . . you do want do these things in scene?” (BTW, my mom, my dad, and my actin…
CTI, The Commercial Theater Institute, is THE place to train if you’re looking for a classroom like education in producer training. It’s like the Parris Island for Producers. The…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 11, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm A CHRISTMAS STORY $461,281 7,225 68.13% $63.85 AN ENEMY OF THE P…
Ok, Nation’s Capital . . . this giveaway is for you. As a thank you for putting up with all the politicking that’s been going on these past two years, we’re giving aw…
Remember that strangely in-poor-taste ad I blogged about on Monday? MSG pulled it. They pulled the whole campaign, actually . . . because Broadway wasn’t the only group the org offende…
I have to say that I never thought we'd still be dealing with the aftermath of that nasty little wench named Sandy more than seven days after she swept onto our shores. I've seen a lot of th…
The NY Times scooped me this past week, with an article or two that I’ve been thinking about doing myself: the influx of Hollywood Players to the Broadway Producing game. …
. . . I voted. and I hope you did too. I love the theater. Â Even though it frustrates me sometimes. Â And unfortunately some of the issues that frustrate me are things that I can’…
Have you seen this ad on a phone kiosk near you? Sorry if the photo isn’t as clear as it should be, but my hands were shaking from irritation when I took it. It features a photo of a K…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending November 04, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $142,175 2,756 61.14% $51.59 ANNIE $638,7…
Both are playing Broadway this season. Tyson did a few rounds with us this summer, and now, the guy “who wrote the songs” recently announced that he is coming back to Broadway fo…
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 Poor Rebecca. What happened to that girl? T…
Back in June of 2009, I blogged about the first video billboard in Times Square and predicted that they’d soon be seen up and down the Great White Way. Well, today, three years later, …
As if this storm wasn’t enough. Tomorrow night, box offices on and off Broadway will face another disaster. Â This one is called Halloween. Halloween is a horrible night for ticket s…
If you subscribe to this blog via email, then you get it delivered to your inbox every night at 8 PM. 8 PM. Â Get it? Â Curtain time! Except tonight up and down and on and off Broadway, …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending October 28, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPaidAdm AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE $212,257 3,678 71.39% $57.71 ANNIE $703,12…
Yesterday, I chatted about the next current generation of Broadway group audiences, aka The Party Market. Today I’m going to give you five tips about those party people that will hopef…
Traditional Group Sales for Broadway Shows accounts for about 9% of all Broadway sales, from what my statistical spies tell me. Â And when I say “Traditional Group Sales”, I me…
Talk to tourists about where they get tickets to Broadway shows, and a lot of them will say, “The Tickets Booth” or “That red place in the middle of Times Square” or …
