Tom Viertel's guest appearances

Tom Viertel

The Producer's Perspective Podcast with Ken Davenport

ATW - Downstage Center

Theatre Beyond Broadway: The Podcast

Tony Award Winners on Downstage Center

David Henry Hwang

Des McAnuff

Alan Cumming

Lynne Meadow

Terrence McNally

Bartlett Sher

Catherine Zuber

William Ivey Long

Richard Maltby

Alfred Uhry

Kevin McCollum

Ken Billington

Daryl Roth

Jerry Zaks

Joe DiPietro

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Tom Viertel has produced a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for over 30 years, including Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, The Encounter, Young Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Driving Miss Daisy, and many others. He is a member of the Board of Governors, Government Relations, and Tony Management Committees of The Broadway League and a Trustee of the Equity-League Pension Funds. With his partners, Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch, and Marc Routh, he owns Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club. He is the Executive Director of the Commercial Theater Institute, which provides a comprehensive curriculum in producing for Broadway. We talked about how producing has changed over the years as well as: What’s wrong with Off Broadway today? And can it be fixed? How to learn from the shows that don’t work. The most important skill a Broadway Producer must have. The advantages of taking small investors and how he built his database. What real estate and Broadway producing have in common. This week's episode is brought to you by Broadway Roulette, the fun and easy way to see a Broadway show. You pick the day and eliminate up to 6 shows you've already seen or don't want to see. Then they send you to a surprise show that fits your criteria. Check it out at: www.broadwayroulette.com.Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBwaywww.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Viertel has produced a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for over 30 years, including Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, The Encounter, Young Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Driving Miss Daisy, and many others. He is a member of the Board of Governors, Government Relations, and Tony Management Committees of The Broadway League and a Trustee of the Equity-League Pension Funds. With his partners, Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch, and Marc Routh, he owns Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club. He is the Executive Director of the Commercial Theater Institute, which provides a comprehensive curriculum in producing for Broadway.  We talked about how producing has changed over the years as well as:<ul> <li>What’s wrong with Off Broadway today? And can it be fixed?</li> <li>How to learn from the shows that don’t work.</li> <li>The most important skill a Broadway Producer must have.</li> <li>The advantages of taking small investors and how he built his database.</li> <li>What real estate and Broadway producing have in common.</li> </ul> This week's episode is brought to you by Broadway Roulette, the fun and easy way to see a Broadway show. You pick the day and eliminate up to 6 shows you've already seen or don't want to see. Then they send you to a surprise show that fits your criteria. Check it out at: <a href="https://www.broadwayroulette.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.broadwayroulette.com</a>. Keep up with me: @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kendavenportbway/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KenDavenportBway</a><a href="http://www.theproducersperspective.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.theproducersperspective.com</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

177 - Tom Viertel

Malini chats with guest, Tom Viertel, 6 time Tony Award winning Broadway Producer, about the growing and changing landscape of Broadway and Off-Broadway and how he has time to mentor upcoming producers!    Shows include: Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, The Encounter, Gypsy, Angels in America, Young Frankenstein, The Norman Conquests, Sweeney Todd, Company, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Oleanna, Love Letters, Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Penn and Teller and many others

Malini chats with guest, Tom Viertel, 6 time Tony Award winning Broadway Producer, about the growing and changing landscape of Broadway and Off-Broadway and how he has time to mentor upcoming producers!   Shows include: Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, The Encounter, Gypsy, Angels in America, Young Frankenstein, The Norman Conquests, Sweeney Todd, Company, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Oleanna, Love Letters, Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Penn and Teller and many others

5. Tom Viertel: Broadway Producer

Prolific producer Tom Viertel, who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as "The Producers", "Hairspray",  and the John Doyle-directed "Company" and "Sweeney Todd", talks abut producing on Broadway and the pending closing of the long-running "Hairspray".  He relates his own theatrical heritage -- his grandfather was a contractor who built the Mark Hellinger Theatre, among many others, and his father was a playwright -- and how he began his own theatrical career as a hobby while working at the family real estate concern.  Among the shows he discusses are his first theatrical foray with two magicians he first saw in a 50 seat theatre in Los Angeles -- Penn and Teller; the extraordinary auditions of two now well-known actresses, Donna Murphy and Laura Benanti, for "Song of Singapore" and "The Sound of Music" respectively; the counterintuitive decisions that led him to produce Theatre de Complicite's "Mnemonic" as a commercial production and to revive "Gypsy" with Patti LuPone on Broadway only five years after the prior production; the travails of producing "Smokey Joe's Cafe"; and why in his spare time he's so committed to his volunteer role as chairman of Connecticut's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Original air date - October 31, 2008.

Tom Viertel (#226) - October, 2008

Prolific producer Thomas Viertel (winner of a Tony Award for the 2001 revival of The Producers, among others), who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as The Producers, Hairspray, and the John Doyle-directed Company and Sweeney Todd, talks abut producing on Broadway and the pending closing of the long-running Hairspray.  He relates his own theatrical heritage -- his grandfather was a contractor who built the Mark Hellinger Theatre, among many others, and his father was a playwright -- and how he began his own theatrical career as a hobby while working at the family real estate concern.  Among the shows he discusses are his first theatrical foray with two magicians he first saw in a 50 seat theatre in Los Angeles -- Penn and Teller; the extraordinary auditions of two now well-known actresses, Donna Murphy and Laura Benanti, for Song of Singapore and The Sound of Music respectively; the counterintuitive decisions that led him to produce Theatre de Complicite's Mnemonic as a commercial production and to revive Gypsy with Patti LuPone on Broadway only five years after the prior production; the travails of producing Smokey Joe's Cafe; and why in his spare time he's so committed to his volunteer role as chairman of Connecticut's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.