I took a call today from a producing peer who was having a serious issue with a project. After a heck of a lot of work (a couple of years, actually), the show just blew up. It was nothing he did. It was beyond his control. It was just . . [...]
Here's a biz idea for some budding entrepreneurs out there: create an S&P for Broadway investments; an "official" ratings board that grades investments on the same AAA scale that screwed the financial markets this week.
I have consultation clients that come to me all the time asking for my "yea/nea" [...]
A friend of mine produced a Broadway show this past spring, and we recently got together to trade stories. When I asked him how it went, he said, "You know that expression, being shot out of a cannon? Well, everything happened so dang fast, I felt like we were shot out [...]
On a Friday afternoon during my first few weeks as an Assistant Company Manager at Show Boat back in 1996, two firemen came up to our office at the Gershwin theater and said there was a water main break nearby, and there might not be water servicing the building for the [...]
I was asked to speak at the Arizona Presenters Alliance annual retreat yesterday and during one of my sessions, which I call, “Stump The Marketing Guy!” (I offer a $100 prize to anyone that can give me a problem that I can’t find at least one action-item solution for), I was [...]
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