The Theatre Lawyer

Broadway Producer Ken Davenport has written a short, but important post for anybody who aspires to producing theatre…

PRODUCER’S PERSPECTIVE: 2 Things To Do If You Want To Be A Broadway Producer.
The esssence of Ken’s tips:  Produce stuff… lots of stuff, no matter how small… you’ll learn from the experience, and meet lots of people… network, network, network.

What’s really interesting about this is that the EXACT SAME ADVICE applies to succeeding in almost any field of endeavor.

What it boils down to is this:  If you want to do something.. just do it, over and over and over, and pretty soon, you’ll be proficient at it, an expert, a professional.

The other part is that you can’t do it alone… you’ll need help, colleagues, vendors, financing, etc.  Meeting lots of folks is the only way to get where you’re going.  Building a network is simple.  Meet people, make them your friends, and help them when you can.  They’ll do the same, and before you know it… you’re succeeding!

Due to unforeseeable technical difficulties, the Law And Video Podcast holiday Hiatus continues.

Some server problems have knocked us off the air, and next week, I’ll be in Hawaii. Once I return, though, we’ll be back in the swing of things with live calls and emailed Q and A.

Thanks for your patience… and stay tuned!

“I think only people in the theater know what a producer is. The public does not know. It knows a writer writes, and an actor acts, and a director tells them what to do. A producer raises money. Well, he does, and in some cases thats all he does. But the workers in the theater know that this is not the real thing. A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius -hard-headed, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless, a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, a mathematician who prefers to ignore the laws of mathematics and trust intuition, an idealist, a realist, a practical dreamer, a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child. That’s a producer.”

– Oscar Hammerstein II

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