Posts Tagged ‘Broadway’
Venus in Fur
I spent the first part of this week in New York City for a number of things, but one of them was the Spring Road Conference of the Broadway League. It’s a gathering where the producers of musicals that are planning to tour the country get together with people who buy the shows in all [...]
‘The Book of Mormon’ One Word Review
Go. Technically, that’s the end of the review, but just to emphasize where I’m coming from on this, the show is everything that I believe Broadway and the live entertainment industry as a whole should be doing: leading the audience and the culture itself by creating original intellectual property that is both incredibly entertaining and [...]
…And Yet I Still Want to Go
Spiderman does whatever a spider can. No one ever said spiders could open a high-production value show on time. Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark has delayed its official start again. Let me say this right now: I don’t know how this show will be, but however it goes, my hat is off to the producers [...]
Will Broadway Lead or Be Led?
Here’s the news: Broadway revenues are up slightly for the 2009-2010 Broadway ‘season’ and attendance is slightly down. All other things being equal, it means of course that people are paying a little more for a ticket and volume is off as a result. It’s a little worse than that because, as Ken Davenport says [...]
3 Keys to Pie-Growing
You’ll recall a couple weeks ago that we were discussing the fact that a panel at the Tickets.com Executive Summit turned into a good-natured food fight over the topic of price optimization. The truth is that the panelists were all broadly in agreement over the fact that price optimization was important, though my point was [...]
Save Money by Shutting Down?
There’s a small but well-known theatre company in Los Angeles called the Actors Gang, which is led by well-known movie actor Tim Robbins. They occupy one of the many, many 99 seat spaces in LA and are known for doing avant-garde work, which sometimes finds a following and sometimes is more successful at, well, pointing [...]
Take It From People Who Know What a Flop Is
If you live in New York, I guess you don’t need me to tell you that sometimes the New York Post sounds like it’s written for characters in the movie Idiocracy. But really, “B’way Summer a Flop, Eyes Star $alvation“? (Btw, guys, the Internet doesn’t have character limits. You can just spell out Broadway.) Here’s [...]
Ken Davenport Chat, part 3
Here’s the last piece of my chat with all-around interesting and talented guy, Ken Davenport. (Be sure to check out parts 1 and 2 first.) Share and Enjoy:
Ken Davenport Conversation, Part 2
Ken Davenport, Broadway and Off-Broadway producer and general renaissance man, continues his conversation with me…(here’s part 1) Share and Enjoy:
My Chat with Ken Davenport, Part 1
Here is part 1 of 3 between me and Broadway and off-Broadway producer, Ken Davenport. He’s the mind behind popular shows like Altar Boyz, the Awesome 80′s Prom, and My First Time. He’s a full-on renaissance man, though, with a thoughtful blog and an appearance in an iPhone commercial. He shared his thoughts on [...]
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