Ahhhh, irony, thy name is young people. At 9 out of 10 ad meetings I attend, the topic of getting more young people always comes up. Â And despite many concentrated and intelligent efforts…
Can you tell that I can’t get enough of the Tony Awards? The telecast and all of its post-appearance residue are keeping me up at night lately. Â It’ll probably take weeks for …
I have a travel outfit. I sleep on planes (sometimes more than I do at home), so I snuggle up in a pair of cozy track pants, the softest and loosest long sleeve shirt I can find, and a sweat…
Talk about a Broadway buzz kill. After last year’s raging success of a Tony show (everyone was so nervous about taking the show from Radio City to The Beacon – and then they real…
Anecdotal evidence (aka Water Cooler and Twitter talk) told me that overall people were pleased with this performance packed Tony Awards telecast, but maybe not as much as last year. Â But…
You couldn’t sleep last night, could you? You were on edge with anticipation . . . who will be nominated for the first ever Broadway Marketing Awards? Â Will it be your favorite show…
Maybe I’ve still got Award Fever, but as I was watching the Tonys on Sunday I couldn’t help but think . . . we’ve got lots of Awards from lots of different organizations fo…
Producing shows can be one of the most rewarding professions on the planet. Â Watching audience members smile and laugh and cry as they take in a show that you helped put together is just …
There were more shockers in this year’s Tonys than in Next to Normal! Â (Get it?) And the number of those surprises affected all of our scores. In last year’s Tony Pool, we had…
The curtain has come down on yet another Broadway season. That sound you hear in the distance is the opening of many a Fire Island and Hampton home as the industry gets ready to hibernat…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending June 10, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $299,235 4,760 50.94% $62.86 ANYTHING GOES $4…
Every year I post my Tony Award predictions alongside YOUR predictions (derived from what the majority of you think is going to win based on your answers in my Tony Pool). Well, this year I …
The subject of this blog is from an email I got from a reader just last weekend, and wouldn’t you know it, two days ago the Broadway League’s Economic Impact report arrived on my…
We had hoped to announce the finalists for our 10 Minute Play contest last Friday . . . but frankly, we were overwhelmed with so many submissions . . . and so many damn good ones . . . that …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending June 3, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $299,657 4,900 52.44% $61.15 ANYTHING GOES $41…
I don’t think I ever saw Edgar “Buddy” Freitag without a smile on his face. I first met him at an ad meeting for Blithe Spirit. Â He, and his equally smile-icious wife, B…
Thanks to a calendar snafu, we skipped a few months of these “popular posts” entries, but we’re all caught up now. Â Click here to see all others. In case this entry is n…
First, let me say that the idea I’m going to propose below probably isn’t practical anymore. Â Unfortunately for all of us, the number of theater critics has dwindled in recent…
Buzzer sound! Â The fourth and final quarter of the 2012 Broadway season is over. Â Can you believe it? Â Another year come and gone. And this one was a beaut . . . depending on how yo…
I first met Sarah Galbraith when I was Company Managing Thoroughly Modern Millie. Â She was the Bookkeeper on the show, and we hit it off instantly. Â (Bookkeepers are the go-between wit…
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending May 27, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $418,337 6,214 66.50% $67.32 ANYTHING GOES $47…
There’s a brand spanking new place to see stuff and a new place to be seen that just opened up called . . . 54 Below. Where is it? Below Studio 54. It’s kind of a mashup of Bar C…
I didn’t have to work to overhear this next exchange, because I was literally in the middle of the conversation. Spring is the season of industry events. From galas, to luncheons, to a…
There’s been a lot of buzz about the number of shows featuring religious subject matter appearing on Broadway in the last 12-18 months. Â With Sister Act, Mormon, Godspell, JCS, and …
The following are the Broadway Grosses from the week ending May 20, 2012: Show Name GrossGross TotalAttn %Cap AvgPdAdm A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE $433,648 6,545 70.04% $66.26 ANYTHING GOES $51…