Present at the Creation: Leaping in the Dark and Going Against the Grain: 1776, Pippin, M. Butterfly, La Bete & Other Broadway Adventures

The best way I know to resuscitate the theatre is to produce dangerous new works. a Stuart Ostrow.THTHProducer Stuart Ostrow’s manifesto of how intelligent life might be restored to the theatre is also a unique personal memoir of the producer-creator relationship and an evaluation of the essentials that can make a show fly or remain earthbound. As a solo producer Ostrow’s many productions include EM. ButterflyE which won the Tony Award for Best Play; EPippinE; and E1776E which received both the New York and London Drama Critics Awards as well as the Tony Award for Best Musical. He produced the original Broadway production of the critically acclaimed ELa BteE which won the Olivier Award in London for Best Comedy. Ostrow was brought in to fix the original production of EChicagoE collaborated with Anthony Hopkins on a London production of EM. ButterflyE that was not meant to be and even had his own play EStagesE directed on Broadway by the avant-garde theatrical pioneer Richard Foreman. He riffs about the heroes and heels he’s met along the way and that great cast includes Frank Loesser Meredith Willson Mel Brooks Mike Nichols Bob Fosse David Geffen Andrew Lloyd Webber David Henry Hwang John Kander Fred Ebb and many more.