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Is social networking hurting sales?

By Ken Davenport On May 27, 2011 · 8 Comments

I got an email blast for a Broadway show the other day that made me wonder whether or not we're putting too much emphasis on the "like" or the "follow" call to action that is appearing on every piece of marketing material known to man these days.

Here's what concerns me:

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    Prepare Ye. Godspell is coming back to Broadway this Fall.

    By Ken Davenport On May 26, 2011 · 11 Comments

    I am thrilled . . . overjoyed . . . pumped . . . so excited that there are no words . . .  to announce that my production of Godspell by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak, directed by Danny Goldstein and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, will begin performances on October 13, 2011 at Broadway's [...]

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      Did the fat lady sing for New York City Opera? And is this an operatic omen?

      By Ken Davenport On May 25, 2011 · 4 Comments

      In a dramatic move that deserves its own aria, New York City Opera, the very first tenant of the center known as Lincoln, announced that it was up and moving.

      Where?

      No one, including NYCO, knows.

      The question on everybody's mind . . . is this the end of [...]

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        Believe it or not, The Rapture worked. Here’s why.

        By Ken Davenport On May 24, 2011 · 4 Comments

        At 6:01 PM this past Saturday, something incredible happened.

        Nothing.

        Despite the certantity of the, ahem, "prophet" Harold Camping, that the world was going to end on date-night, it just didn't.  (If you were in NYC in the '90s, then you know–this was not the first time Camping and his minions [...]

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          Who sees Broadway shows on the road anyway?

          By Ken Davenport On May 23, 2011 · 8 Comments

          The annual Broadway League report that details the demographics and habits of the audience of Broadway shows around the country was released last week.

          And, I've got the skinny.

          Audiences at over twenty theaters from LA to Boston and several in between were asked a bunch of questions, and then the [...]

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