Rocco Landesman
Rocco Landesman
Rocco Landesman has been a long-time Broadway theatre producer. He served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Artsfrom August 2009 to December 2012. The NEA is a public agency of the Federal Government with an annual budgetthat is directed into grants to support excellence in the arts, bring arts to all Americans and provide leadership in arts education. He is part owner of Jujamcyn Theaters, but he was a passive owner while serving in Washington...
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We have put up something that will never close.
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Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.
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I would like to start by calling bullshit.
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There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.
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What's happening here now is we've put up something that will never close. The name of August Wilson is written in stone forever.
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Producing is a terrible business. The rewards are lousy. Only 15-20 percent of shows recoup their investment, just as 15-20 percent of horses pay for their oats.
He's one of the most important American playwrights ever,
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The marquee is going to survive August, ... And it is going to survive me.
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one of the most important American playwrights ever. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers.
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but that doesn't mean I want to see plays about it. A Broadway audience comes for entertainment, not to be lectured.
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Jed Bernstein leaves a completely different League than he found when he took this job 10 years ago. The transformation he has engineered is truly remarkable. What we now know as the Broadway Brand, with its numerous new programs, sponsorships, and greatly expanded public profile, is largely Jed's creation. We will miss him.