This site, Live 2.0, is devoted to bringing about the future which I believe is not only possible, but likely: the ascendancy of live entertainment as the leader in the entertainment industry overall. How can such a thing be possible? Value comes from relative supply and demand. Over the last generation, the percentage of our [...]
…and if you’re not steeped in the way things are, rapid, dramatic change isn’t nearly as frightening or even surprising. The other day, I was asked to speak to a graduate school class at USC about entrepreneurship. Almost everyone in the class of about 50 aspires to be an entrepreneur, and all of them have [...]
Jay Leno is moving back to late night, and that’s been the big news this week in TV land. He spent years, of course, as the host of the Tonight Show before moving to prime time at 10 o’clock five days a week starting back in fall. That’s a big move, giving one guy 25% [...]
Let me rephrase. In an era of plenty (and despite the sour economy, compared to almost any time or place in the history of humankind, our cup truly runneth over) food isn’t about eating. It’s about fun. And if you’re in the live entertainment business, it’s important to recognize that in the last generation or [...]
You might have heard about the upcoming Spiderman musical on Broadway. I thought about it because, as you’ll see at the link, I read that it’s been delayed, but that’s not what I want to talk about. I want to talk about whether producing a Spiderman musical is audience-oriented or merely pandering. And first, let [...]
Yesterday, I talked about how you always need to build the show around the value placed on it by the audience, and not build the show and then figure out how much you need to charge. (Because price has nothing to do with cost, remember?) This, for me, is at the heart of running your [...]
Michael Kaiser, smart guy and big chief of the Kennedy Center, wrote an article in the Huffington Post a few days ago that reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to say on here for a while. There’s a lot of good stuff in it, but here’s the part I want to focus on: “The [...]
According to subscription-only mergers and acquisitions site The Deal (and reported by mainjustice.com), the Department of Justice is “unenthused” about continuing the investigation into the TM-LN merger, so after about a year of work, they look prepared to give their thumbs-up to the merger. The only thing that surprises me about this is how long [...]
A couple weeks ago, Trevor O’Donnell passed along an interesting tidbit from The Artful Manager blog. The tidbit that caught my eye was this: “Arts and cultural experiences are among the most personal and complex goods on offer. It might be time to embrace an upside-down view of the marketplace that begins with the person [...]