Broadway General Manager: Demystifying the Most Important and Least Understood Role in Show Business

Author Bogyo (general manager for Love Letters; A Moon for the Misbegotten; et al.) has used his years of experience to write an excellent guide for those who are interested in a nonperforming theater career. While an audience member may not worry about budgets, insurance, hiring performers, and, unfortunately, closing a show, the general manager must know and understand all that and more. A discussion of prerecoupment full royalties and prerecoupment (net), along with a detailed financial listing of both, is one clear example of the author's in-depth approach. Another is a full chapter on operating budgets and all the components one must consider (and cost out) when pulling a production together. He also makes clear that a GM must not only understand financial issues, as well as be good at math, but must also be able to deal with unions, contracts, creative personalities, and the ebb and flow of audience interests and cultural imagination.The text includes a helpful "Glossary of Terms" (where readers learn the difference between gross gross and gross) and a very good index.