Theatre Business Quotes

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

I had lunch with Andrew Lloyd Webber at the end of 2011 because my musical 'Matilda' is in one of the theatres that he owns in London.

The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.

You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.

It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!