How to succeed on Broadway without really trying

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 9:45am

So I've been wondering who the hell this guy Michael Jacobs is and how he has the skill to get a brand new play produced on Broadway with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen and Marsha Mason and directed by Jack O'Brien.

Apparently, David Cote of Time Out New York was wondering that, too.

http://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/upstaged/2009/02/how-to-succeed-on-broadway-without-really-trying/

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 10:13am

A producer read the play and liked it enough to take it to Broadway. Mystery solved. Many accredited writers have had total crap produced on Broadway (anyone remember Prymate?). Every show is a gamble.

Perhaps a more interesting question is why they chose that photo of Jeremy Irons from The Time Machine.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 10:36am

I don't understand.

[mrscott]

Posted: 2/26/09 at 11:21am

Aaron Sorkin had never been produced (on Broadway or elsewhere) when A FEW GOOD MEN opened on Broadway in December 1989. It ran for 13 months -