Paul Harris, "WASHINGTON — Credit the Kennedy Center for helping to revive D.C.'s moribund tourism economy, which has been in the tank since Sept. 11. Its festival of six musicals by Stephen Sondheim registered a one-day record for single ticket sales Feb. 11. The box office sold $639,000 in tickets that first day at a $76 top...
At week's end, sales had topped $3.3 million, including $2 million in advance subscription and group sales....", Variety, February 2002.
Todd Purdom, "An Impresario With a Sideline: Rescuing Troubled Cultural Groups", interview in The New York Times, December 9, 2004:Archived September 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine 'For Dance Theater, he noted, the most acute problem — $900,000 owed to "the people who can shut you down," including insurers — was "nothing, not even in the scheme of Harlem, let alone New York." Within five or six weeks, Mr. Kaiser helped the company retire its debts, find a new executive director, expand its board and begin facing the future. "I needed to show troubled organizations around the country that you can fix your problems," he said. "I take very little credit for the actual implementation. They've done it." '
Todd Purdom, "An Impresario With a Sideline: Rescuing Troubled Cultural Groups", interview in The New York Times, December 9, 2004:Archived September 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine 'For Dance Theater, he noted, the most acute problem — $900,000 owed to "the people who can shut you down," including insurers — was "nothing, not even in the scheme of Harlem, let alone New York." Within five or six weeks, Mr. Kaiser helped the company retire its debts, find a new executive director, expand its board and begin facing the future. "I needed to show troubled organizations around the country that you can fix your problems," he said. "I take very little credit for the actual implementation. They've done it." '
