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Let someone else play with your play.

By producer On September 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment


When I saw the Mexican production of My First Time earlier this month, I remembered something:  there are ideas other than my own . . . and some of them are good!

When you create something and work on it closely, it’s easy to get tunnel vision, even if that tunnel [...]

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    A pisser of a show.

    By producer On September 23, 2008 · 2 Comments

    I snapped this shot in the bathroom of the Lyceum Theater tonight.

    Yep, some guy left more than his dinner drinks in this john.

    Some guy left a postcard advertising his show.

    Gotta give the guy (a reasonable assumption) a lot of credit:

    - He advertised to a targeted audience (anyone in the WC [...]

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      Has the economy affected Broadway sales?

      By producer On September 22, 2008 · 5 Comments


      Broadway?  I don’t think Broadway has seen any major downturn that can be directly attributed to the current economic situation . . . yet.

      But frankly, it’s too early to tell.

      When there’s a drought or a famine, the first ones to go aren’t the rich folks on the hill in their [...]

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        What kind of pitcher are you?

        By producer On September 19, 2008 · 2 Comments


        I can hear the groans from my staff already . . . "Another baseball analogy?"

        Yep, another baseball analogy.

        Obviously I have some unresolved issues with my all-too-short baseball career, and I’m taking it out on all of you.  Like Roger Clemens, all that I can say is that I’m

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          My response to the current Wall St. woes.

          By producer On September 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment


          I got an email from a 13 investor yesterday who thanked me for giving him the opportunity to get in, because if he hadn’t sunk money into the show, he would have sunk it in a stock . . . and that stock would have sunk and sunk and stunk. [...]

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