Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

The Show Must Go On – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

November 20, 2014 Out to Lunch Comments Off on The Show Must Go On – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

Now that the Katrina-darkened footlights are back on at the Saenger, the Mahalia Jackson and the Civic, theater is big business in New Orleans. Peter’s guests on out to Lunch are two of the people who brought these theaters back to life and who operate them. 

bryan bailey

Bryan Bailey is co-owner and Managing Partner of the Civic Theater.

david skinner

David Skinner is General Manager of the Saenger and the Mahalia Jackson theaters.

After millions of dollars worth of renovations,  the Saenger, Mahalia Jackson, and Civic theaters are now hosting a multitude of productions – from touring Broadway plays to rock concerts – and thousands of New Orleanians are discovering them, many for the first time.

theater

David And Bryan tell Peter about the very different routes that got them into the theater business and discuss the common issues they have in encouraging performers to include New Orleans in their touring schedule. In this show we get a glimpse behind the scenes at the business of live theater. 

Realtor Tracey Moore