KEN DAVENPORT, Broadway, Off-Broadway, Shows, Producer, Consultant

"From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun."

- Bertoldt Brecht

ALTAR BOYZ, the acclaimed musical comedy, is now in its third thrilling year at New World Stages. Winner of the coveted Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical Off-Broadway, Altar Boyz is the longest running new musical comedy to open in New York in years! A musical comedy about a catholic boy band? Sounds ridiculous, right? It is! Ridiculously funny! Fans have given this smash hit, with its high-energy dance moves, infectious pop music, and fresh satirical bite, the Broadway.com Audience Favorite Award for two years running. Full of sharp parody, sinfully spectacular dancing, and irreverent humor, this spoof about a heavenly guy-group is adored by audiences and critics alike. With an extraordinary mix of side-splitting songs “convincing enough to be played on MTV,” uncontrollable laughs and lighthearted fun, this award-winning and totally original new musical is 90 minutes of pure delight that's suitable for all ages and will have the whole family laughing and singing along. In addition to New York City, ALTAR BOYZ has played Detroit, Des Moines and Seoul, Korea, as well as a national tour.

THE AWESOME 80S PROM, called "TOTALLY RAD!" by the New York Times, is now entering its third tubular year in New York City, with additional companies having played in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Baltimore. THE PROM is a blast-from-the-past party in the style of Tony 'n Tina's Wedding and The Donkey Show set at Wanaget High's Senior Prom... in 1989! All your favorite characters from your favorite '80s movies are at THE PROM, from the Captain of the Football Team to the Asian Exchange Student, from the Geek to the hottie Head Cheerleader, and they're all competing for Prom King and Queen. And just like on "American Idol", the audience decides who wins, all while moonwalking to retro hits like "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go!" The Awesome 80s Prom is the ideal place for your Bachelorette Party, Sweet 16 Party, Class Reunion, or Anniversary. The Awesome 80s Prom has been featured on television on WNBC'S Weekend Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, Fox 5 News and Fuji Television as well as in print in The New York Times, The NY Daily News, New York Magazine, Playgirl, and many others. The Awesome 80s Prom. This time you don't have a curfew.

MY FIRST TIME. Recently featured on CNN, Fox, MSNBC and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, MY FIRST TIME Off-Broadway is a brand new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues, featuring four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people . . . just like you! In 1996, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, heterosexual, homosexual, awkward, shy, sexy and everything in between. And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to life by four amazing actors in this acclaimed 90 minute play. “Screamingly Funny!” . . . “Provactive, amusing and moving!” . . . “80 minutes of titillation - the theatrical equivalent of a date-movie!” are just a few of the things critics like the NY Post and Newsday have called this “diverting evening of first-time tales that is by turns comical, erotic, sentimental, galling, heart-rendering, and even mildly political.” (Toronto Globe & Mail).

13 THE MUSICAL. Evan Goldman has it all – he’s popular, has the ‘perfect’ family and lives in the greatest city in the world – New York. That is until his parents get divorced and he’s forced to move - to a small town in Indiana. Uprooted from his old life, he has to make new friends and somehow maneuver the minefield of High School to become part of the ‘in-crowd’. With wit and searing honesty, 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages. It’s about the lessons one learns throughout life and the discovery that the journey to who you want to be starts with discovering who you are. Featuring an explosive rock score by celebrated composer Jason Robert Brown (Parade, The Last Five Years) and performed by an astonishing cast of young actors, 13 is a grown-up story about growing up.

SPEED THE PLOW. Sex and money battle for blood in the 20th anniversary revival of Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet's classic skewering of Hollywood power brokers. Jeremy Piven ("Entourage") and Raul Esparza (Company) play two film producers hungry to impress the Studio Head with the next big blockbuster. Cut to a sexy new secretary (Elisabeth Moss, "Mad Men"), armed with a plan to tear them apart.

NEVER ENOUGH: THE STORY OF THE GREATEST BAND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF is a documentary film about one of the top unsigned rock bands in the country, Red Wanting Blue. Red Wanting Blue has been touring the country for over 12 years. They’ve recorded 8 independent albums. They have thousands of fans. But they’ve yet to get a record deal. And they’ve also yet to give up. NEVER ENOUGH is a study of what makes people like the members of Red Wanting Blue keep going, when so many others would have quit to take the road “more traveled."

SOMEWHERE IN TIME is a new Broadway musical currently in development based on the beautifully romantic and classic novel by the same name by renowned author Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone, The Incredibly Shrinking Man, Stir of Echoes, Duel, etc.) that was made into a film starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. SOMEWHERE IN TIME tells the story of a man who falls in love with a portrait of a woman and travels back in time to be with her, searching for the the answer to the question . . . can true love transcend time?

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