The Business of Broadway: An Insider’s Guide to Working, Producing, and Investing in the World’s Greatest Theatre Community

New York’s Broadway theatre scene has long been viewed as the top of the heap in the world theatre community. Taking lessons from the very best, this innovative guide delves into the business side of the renowned industry to explain just how its system functions. For anyone interested in pursuing a career on Broadway, or who wants to grow a theatre in any other part of the world, The Business of Broadway offers an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure at the core of successful theatre. Manager/producer Mitch Weiss and actor/writer Perri Gaffney take readers behind the scenes to reveal what the audience―and even the players and many producers―don’t know about how Broadway works, describing more than two hundred jobs that become available for every show. A variety of performers, producers, managers, and others involved with the Broadway network share valuable personal experience in interviews discussing what made a show a hit or a miss, and how some of the rules, regulations, and practices that are in place today were pioneered.

• Broadway General Manager: Demystifying the Most Important and Least Understood Role in Show Business
• The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built
• Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices
• The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals
• I Wanna Be a Producer: How to Make a Killing on Broadway...or Get Killed
• Producing Theatre : A Comprehensive and Legal Business Guide
• Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway
• Stage Money: The Business of the Professional Theater (Non Series)
• Theatre Management
• From Option to Opening : aguide to Producing Plays Off Broadway - Revised and Updated