Here's something I never thought I'd say . . . thank God I don't produce movies. Why sure, sure, the theater ain't no producin' picnic, but . . . well, let me just ask you this . . . when wa…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending August 11, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
If this is the first you're hearing about this musical coming to New York, then you gotta follow me here . . . because that's where I announce a lot of the fun stuff. But let me recap . . . …
Today is National Roller Coaster Day. (See, Community Theaters? I told you that pretty much anything can have a day " especially a great institution like yours.) I wasn't always a Ro…
I bought a car last week. (Makes no sense having a car in the city, I know, I know, but you have a kid and a dream about driving her to a water park and see how quickly you're visiting TrueC…
One of my missions as a Broadway producer is to make the world understand that Broadway is a business like any other. It's not a hobby. It's not a game. It's not some crazy pl…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending August 11, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
Warning: Sports metaphor ahead. Proceed at your own risk. If you've ever watched basketball, you know that at times, college ball can be a heck of a lot more fun to watch than the pr…
People ask me all the time why Broadway doesn't change. The answer is the same as to why most things don't change. Fear. See, our business model is super fragile. It's like carrying …
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending August 4, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
And just like that, folks, Rave Theater Festival begins performances this Friday and several of the performances are already sold out! I can hardly believe it's been five months since we …
High school musicals get a lot of attention. Maybe because Disney did a movie about them. (Actually, Disney did a lot of movies about them.) The irony is, while I don't have the data …
In a corner of my office, in a spot where no one else can see, hangs a letter addressed to me dated May 17, 2000 "from the desk of Harold Prince." It reminds me of two things . . . the day t…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 28, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
This past season there were only two musical revivals on Broadway. And one of the duo was produced by a non-profit. And next season, I only see one comin' . . . Why the sudden lack? …
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 21, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
"Broadway is the longest street in America." If you've never heard that quote before, attributed to our living legend Paul Libin, who recently retired as an EVP and resident "guru" at Juj…
It was 15 years ago. Can you believe it? 15 years ago, almost to the day, we started rehearsals for the New York Musical Festival production of Altar Boyz . . . starring Cheyenne Jackson,…
A long time ago, in a galaxy very close to Times Square . . . I was in deep you-know-what. See, I had made a bad business assumption. Actually, that's redundant. Any assumption is a bad one.…
People ask me all the time what I look for when I'm hiring an employee. That's a complicated question, especially when you need someone with expert knowledge and specific skill sets, never m…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 7, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
. . . our inaugural Rave Theater Festival! Did you not know we were producing a brand-spankin' new Theater Festival? Well, six months ago . . . neither did we! 🙂 But we ar…
There have been a lot of closings lately. Broadway has felt a bit like Barnes & Noble after Amazon took off. Ok, ok, there are always a lot of closing announcements post-Tonys, bu…
The following are the Broadway grosses for the week ending July 7, 2019. The Broadway grosses are courtesy of The Broadway League.
I loved Annie. Not just the musical. I'm talking about Annie herself. Her name was A***** L*******, and she was the star of our local community theater production of the cartoon-turned-m…