How better to generate interest and attract producers than by performing excerpts from the scores, usually 20 minutes or so, and see what the public thinks?
Although as his latest play, "The Anarchist," amply proved, Mr. Mamet seems to be writing on fumes these days — when's he's not merely fuming — his inferior new work invariably attracts producers and stars and lands a Broadway berth.
Mr. Podell, who was once chairman of the Jean Cocteau Repertory company, and has invested in Broadway shows, said he was being both playful and serious in admitting to "using tactical Johnson-esque mind games" to attract producers to his Johnson play at the expense of the other one.
After completing the script in 1999, Atchison won one of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 2000, and subsequently attracted producers Sid Ganis and Nancy Hult Ganis to the project.
In order to help attract producers they shot a low-budget short film of the same name from a scene out of the script.
And without reviews, how could we attract producers, producers who would raise money for future productions, future productions in real theaters?
Bartok went the usual route: trying to find a bankable star to attach herself to the project, in order to attract producers or investors.
A short-lived revue in Los Angeles, Thank You, Columbus, attracted producer Edwin Lester's attention.
By taxing imported chips much more heavily, says the SIA, China has had a big impact on where fabs are built mainly by attracting Taiwanese producers to build new fabs in Shanghai, Songjiang, Beijing and Suzhou.
But the 499-seat theater was often sold out, attracting what producers said were ticket buyers seeking a boisterous concert experience rather than a genteel evening at the theater.
