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Special Sunday Post: 13 for 13 Tomorrow

By producer On August 24, 2008 · 2 Comments


The 13 Box Office opens at 10 AM tomorrow . . . and we’re selling $13 tickets to the first 100 people in line, so come on down to The Jacobs Theatre! 

Read the deets on JRB’s website here.

I’ll see you there! 

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    Please call your lawyer. Part II.

    By producer On August 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment


    It’s official. 

    The phrase, "I’m calling my lawyer!" and its many consumer-screamed derivatives including "My husband/wife/uncle/cousin is an attorney," have jumped the shark.

    Listen to this recent mis-use of the lawyer scare card:

    At a show in NYC, a woman had to be escorted out of the theater in handcuffs [...]

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      Please call your lawyer. Part I.

      By producer On August 21, 2008 · 1 Comment


      A friend of mine was cutting a deal with a promotional partner recently and when he received the contract, he told the potential partner that he’d be get back to him after his lawyer reviewed the paperwork.

      The partner told him not to bother and squashed the deal, for the [...]

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        No refunds. No exchanges. Except . . .

        By producer On August 20, 2008 · 3 Comments


        Sometimes, people don’t like my shows.  Sometimes, they even leave before they are over. 

        What can you do.  You can’t please everyone.  And frankly, I bet people walked out of Oedipus Rex during previews (incest, violence . . . makes Spring Awakening look like "Hee-Haw").

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          I’m addicted to Speed.

          By producer On August 19, 2008 · 3 Comments

          The tweets are true. 

          Earlier today, I twittered that I had signed on as one of the Producers of the 20th Anniversary revival of David Mamet’s Speed The Plow starring Entourage’s Jeremy Piven, Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss and Broadway’s Bobby-baby, Raul Esparza. 

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