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 in the Broadway network share valuable personal experiences in interviews discussing what made a show a hit or a miss, and how some of the rules, regulations, and practices in place today were pioneered.

Mitch Weiss has managed several hundred Broadway and off-Broadway shows including Tony Award winners A Chorus Line, The Grapes of Wrath, and Beauty and the Beast, and he has more than forty years of management and producing experience with such clients as Disney Theatrical Productions, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Big Apple Circus, as well as many other successful and well-known recording, sports, and theatrical artists. He has been a certified ATPAM manager since 1985 and teaches management courses at New York University. He is the author of Managing Artists in Pop Music with Perri Gaffney (Allworth Press). Weiss lives in New York City.

Perri Gaffney is the author of several books. She adapted her debut novel, The Resurrection of Alice, into a Helen Hayes Award?nominated one-woman play. She wrote and performed in Josephine, a multimedia monodrama based on the life of Josephine Baker, and has written and contributed to numerous plays, independent films, and TV shows. She lives in New York City.