NPR "Fresh Air" Podcast - Scott Rudin

Producer Scott Rudin talks with Terri Gross about how he became a producer and gives some interesting background regarding the evolution of Shuffle Along... . He also discusses The Humans, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Blackbird. He includes interesting anecdotes about past shows he's produced, too. Towards the end of the interview, he very briefly mentions working with Stephen Sondheim on Sondheim's new musical which he hopes will open in 2017.

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Broadway Producer Scott Rudin: 'I'm A Complete Product Of Mentorship'

There's going to be a new theatre? I thought all plans for that were scrapped.

I can't be sure, just going off what Rudin said in the interview. He said that they were going to be building a new theatre and it would mean that the Imperial was going to have to go "offline". The context was that taking three "big musical houses offline" in the next few years is going to mean that shows are going to be fighting for theatres more.

Great Comet is going to be a hit. don't see it closing til 2018