Conventional wisdom for those trying to achieve anything worth achieving is to be prepared to fail, and fail often. You’ll hear stories of epic fails from Edison before he lit that light bulb. Or how many times the Wright brothers failed before they flew. And certainly so many of the greatest Producers, Writers and Artists of all …
Read MoreWhenever any industry goes through a period of explosive growth, like we on Broadway are in right now, it has a ripple effect on how that industry will operate over the next chunk of time. And as we talked about yesterday, not only are we in a time of plenty on Broadway right now (plenty of …
Read MoreI’m starting to sound like some kind of musical-living parrot. “Broadway is booming. Squaaaaak! Broadway is booming.” As I reported in yesterday’s gross wrap up there was some serious Pirate-like booty in our box offices last week, with 14 shows grossing over $1mm. It’s a good time to have a show musical on Broadway. Our industry is hot, thanks partly …
Read MoreFor some reason, yesterday started off like a horror movie. You know, when in the first few minutes, it all goes to crap. There was no blood and guts or anything. But it wasn’t such a great start. (Well, actually, there was a little blood, but no guts were exposed.) Here’s what happened: I …
Read MoreRemember that time we live streamed Daddy Long Legs, and it was the first ever Broadway or Off Broadway show to get that digital treatment . . . ever? And remember when over 150,000 people tuned in from over 130 countries around the world? If you were one of the folks that missed it, or if you saw it on the …
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