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Who won the tickets to How I Learned to Drive?

By Ken Davenport On January 28, 2012 · 1 Comment

I was going to pick this one randomly, but when I read how Marty Strenczewilk was just as passionately bummed about missing How I Learned the first time around, how could I resist?

Marty, you and I are finally gonna see this sucker!

Email me and we'll set it up.  

Here's to crossing [...]

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    One Secret to Finding New Audiences, or What I Learned from Mohegan Sun.

    By Ken Davenport On January 27, 2012 · 8 Comments

    Casinos have a lot on the ‘line’, which is why there is a lot to learn from everything they do.

    I stumbled upon a simple little trick that I’ve started using for my shows already, and it has been so successful, I had to share it with you. 

    It’s simple . . [...]

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      What if Ghost The Musical was written by a Ghost?

      By Ken Davenport On January 26, 2012 · 12 Comments

      A friend of mine wrote a book.

      Wait, that’s not entirely accurate. 

       A friend of mine made it look like he wrote a book.  The truth is, he had it written by someone else.  A ghost.  (Insert spooky music here, or this from the upcoming musical version of Ghost.)

      And [...]

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        Last chance for you to see Chinglish.

        By Ken Davenport On January 25, 2012 · 16 Comments

        Chinglish, the very funny and very timely play by David Henry Hwang that I produced on Broadway this Fall, is closing up shop this Sunday, January 29th.  And yep, it's closing earlier than we had all hoped.

        And you should go see it before it does.

        Why?  Because it's a very [...]

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          10 Takeaways from TEDxBroadway

          By Ken Davenport On January 24, 2012 · 6 Comments

          What a day.

          Damian, Jim and I had high expectations for the first ever TEDxBroadway, but we were blown away by the presentations given by our big-brained speakers.  It was an exciting and inspiring day and all of us were so thankful to each and every presenter, and especially to each [...]

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