Friday, July 22, 2016
Should there be an Independent Broadway Producer's League?
The Producer's Perspective: several years ago a group of Independent Touring Presenters (the people who bring National Tours of Broadway shows to a theater near you) saw a shift in their business, as a large corporate player started eating up a majority of the playing weeks on the road. They found it harder to get product, and therefore harder to survive. So to protect their interests, they banded together to form the Independent Presenter’s Network
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A group of independent producers on broadway could, I think, be really beneficial for our industry. The way that broadway has gone is the way where money comes before artistic vision in a lot of cases. I personally am not satisfied with this, and think that a group that is unaffiliated with businesses whose point is to make as much money as possible is something that could result in a reversal of this trend, or at least could keep it under control. In the end, the audiences need to be in some way improved or enriched by the theatrical experience, or there is no point. With money being the priority for many of the sponsored shows, these productions become artistically unsatisfying to produce and to experience. Broadway is an incredible phenomenon of out world, and keeping it truly alive, and not just operating, could very well depend on initiatives like this to keep the art of Broadway thriving.
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