Performance Scheduling Quotes

I got an office where I just go and put together shows, you know.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign.

In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.

When I'm on tour I just ring up the theatres, book it and go on. You can pretty much go on tour when you want but you can't just make a telly show when you want.

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.

There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.