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The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending March 11, 2018.
The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League
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https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BPNET9221545617.mp3 I don't know that I could have done it. But, then again, I'm not Maddie Corman. As you'll hear in my intro to this podcast, I've known about …
I don't know that I could have done it. But, then again, I'm not Maddie Corman. As you'll hear in my intro to this podcast, I've known about Maddie Corman since I was a teenager.  Chan…
Is it just me or is Super Tuesday the new Superbowl? Ok, ok, maybe it's the Playoffs, and Election Day itself is The Big Game. But it certainly felt like a-must-see-sporting event Tuesda…
Note to self . . . when you don't do things for a long time that were very popular, and then do them later on, they tend to be popular again. This happens to be the theory of why certain …
In case you missed it, last week we extended the deadline for submission to the Rave Theater Festival by one week! That's right, the final FINAL deadline to get your script submitted is this…
Broadway slid 11% last week due in large part to the Kid's Night on Broadway promo. Attendance was down 3% despite two new musicals starting previews. At first glance, the numbers this week …
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BPNET1791393304.mp3 Here's all you need to know about Vivek Tiwary . . . He had never lead produced a Broadway musical when he had sat down with Alanis Morissett…
Here's all you need to know about Vivek Tiwary . . . He had never lead produced a Broadway musical when he had sat down with Alanis Morissette and convinced her that he should be the one to …
I never believed in them. For Broadway anyway. Sure, investment funds were fine when you were buying a basket of boring stocks to prepare for your retirement, but for Broadway? For a…
Grosses leveled off last week coming out of the holiday weekend. Overall, the street dropped 6% coming in at $29M, though attendance was flat week-over-week. Most of the drop can be attribut…
Did you miss me? Ok, maybe not. But did you miss my guests??? That's what I thought! Well, the wait is over. Welcome back to the brand new season of The Producer's Perspective Podcast…
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BPNET5335451925.mp3 Did you miss me? Ok, maybe not. But did you miss my guests??? That's what I thought! Well, the wait is over. Welcome back to the brand…
I'm in a hotel room as I type this. And I just finished a sweet caesar salad with chicken that left me fully satiated . . . and with some breath that could kill a whole bouquet of roses.…
(This post is for you all you EGOT wannabes who are having trouble grabbing the "G" in that acronym. As I watched Hadestown deservedly grab this year's Grammy Award for Best Musical Theat…
Long over-due relief came to the box office last week thanks to a three-day holiday weekend. Overall grosses were up 16% which was a 2% improvement on the same week last year. Most shows had…
We've done a lot of fun things on this blog over the years, but the Broadway Producer Pick List is one of our favorites. See, every year, our office receives a ton of scripts from all sor…
For those of you new to the blog, one of the first things I did on Broadway that got some national (and even international) attention was my crowd-funded Godspell. One of the reasons I…
Last week overall box office figures increased by just under $1M. The big winner was David Byrne's American Utopia which drew an average ticket price of $210.55. Total haul for the 7 perform…
There was big news to begin this week, and it was broken by the maestro himself. In case you missed it, here's what Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted on Monday: Disney presents: Hamilton. With …
Last week grosses dipped by 6% coming in at $26M. Nearly all shows experienced slight losses over the previous week as we reach deeper into winter. Attendance and average ticket price fell b…
When I first started producing shows and had to talk to potential investors, I put musicals into two different metaphorical buckets to make the risk levels easier to understand. I describ…
One of the many great services of the Broadway League is the demographic survey they do of our audience. It's essential for any industry or business to find out who its customers are in orde…
Broadway grosses continued to drop last week. Nearly all shows posted grosses well below the previous week. Bucking the trending, however, was American Utopia whose $205 average ticket boost…
The only thing I enjoy more than speaking to Theater Organizations (and I've had the honor of speaking to a bunch over the last few years, from The Irish Theatre Forum to The International T…
