At the top of the season, the best marketing angle for Charles Busch’s Our Leading Lady seemed obvious. The play is about the company of actors who were performing at Ford’s Theatre on the night Lincoln was shot and the star of the show – the eponymous leading lady – is Laura Keene, to be […]
And just like that – poof! – all remaining performances of Rock ‘n Roll Heaven are sold out. The highest average weekly gross of any show in Centre Stage history and, taken with the success of last year’s Country Queens, conclusive proof that concerts conceived, arranged and produced entirely in-house are bankable products. This October/November, […]
Rude fundraising professionals aside, this has been an uncommonly good week. I sold the Wheat Street house in Columbia, ending an eight-month process that included three failed closings. Rock ‘n Roll Heaven sailed over top-of-season revenue projections and posted its first sold-out performances. It dawned on me that the entire staff is excited about the […]
