NYT feature on Jordan Roth: A Broadway Big Shot Is Now Reinventing Himself

[MezzA101]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 6:35am

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/theater/jordan-roth-broadway-louvre.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.5IRB.dp_HsvlhIZ0T

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 7:03am

Gotta say that I find him insufferable. Used to follow him on social media, but he very clearly loves himself and the praise he gets from others. I suppose that’s not a bad thing when it’s balanced with some humility, but I couldn’t find any. His is a world of air kisses and posing.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 7:17am

DramaTeach said: "Gotta say that I find him insufferable. Used to follow him on social media, but he very clearly loves himself and the praise he gets from others. I suppose that’s not a bad thing when it’s balanced with some humility, but I couldn’t find any. His is a worldofair kisses and posing."

I agree entirely. During covid, I found his social media a rather tone deaf display. His wealth is exorbitant but while so many in his community suffer, he seems to live in a bubble.

[quizking101]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 8:14am

He was in a position to be a true disrupter in the old boy’s club of Broadway producers, only to then take the wealth he gained (from familial wealth he already had) and use it to make himself into an ostentatious example of a pick-me gay - squandering any goodwill he built up in the process.

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 8:20am

‘Olivier Gabet, who leads the Louvre’s decorative arts department, called Roth “a very special character,”’

Yep the French are gonna see right through this hack. 

[Bwaygurl2]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 8:38am

BorisTomashevsky said: "‘Olivier Gabet, who leads the Louvre’s decorative arts department, called Roth “a very special character,”’

Yep the French are gonna see rightthrough this hack."

Just as with Louis XVI.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 9:03am

I can’t say I have any issue with him. Certainly not now that he doesn’t have a very important day job. The wealthy can do what they like. Give me 100 Roths instead of one Musk or Bezos. (Not that he’s in their wealth category.)

Also interesting: at one time he was a producer of the Florence GATSBY, but now he is not. 

[DiscoCrows]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 9:25am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "I can’t say I have any issue with him. Certainly not now that he doesn’t have a very important day job. The wealthy can do what they like. Give me 100 Roths instead of one Musk or Bezos. (Not that he’s in their wealth category.)

Also interesting: at one time he was a producer of the Florence GATSBY, but now he is not."

I remember this. Where does it say he is no longer a producer?

[DaveyG]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 9:34am

The personification of "let them eat cake".

[Kad]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 9:37am

iluvtheatertrash said: "DramaTeach said: "Gotta say that I find him insufferable. Used to follow him on social media, but he very clearly loves himself and the praise he gets from others. I suppose that’s not a bad thing when it’s balanced with some humility, but I couldn’t find any. His is a worldofair kisses and posing."

I agree entirely. During covid, I found his social media a rather tone deaf display. His wealth is exorbitant but while so many in his community suffer, he seems to live in a bubble."

I recall that he made himself very scarce on social media for much of 2020 after he received blowback from documenting his days in his house in the Hamptons during the lockdown. Remarkably tone deaf. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 2:15pm

DiscoCrows said: "I remember this. Where does it say he is no longer a producer?"

The NYT piece says his only project in development is GALILEO.

I also think his statement about gender is meaningful in the current climate when people are in a rush to classify themselves and others.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 2:25pm

He's acting like Broadway's answer to Jeff Bezos.  

Updated On: 6/30/25 at 02:25 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 2:59pm

JSquared2 said: "He's acting like Broadway's answer toJeff Bezos."

Who's an equivalent person who has largely stepped AWAY from their industry to do something else? That's a more apt comparison...

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 3:07pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "JSquared2 said: "He's acting like Broadway's answer toJeff Bezos."

Who's an equivalent person who has largely stepped AWAY from their industry to do something else? That's a more apt comparison..."

 

No, actually the comparison has more to do with spending obscene amounts of money like $25+ million for a wedding, or renting out the Louvre in order to put on a "dress up show" while millions of Americans are going hungry and having their health care taken away from them. It's the epitome of playing the fiddle while Rome is burning.  We know that Steve Roth is a close Trump ally -- I had hoped that Jordan was different.

 

Updated On: 6/30/25 at 03:07 PM

[Leisie93]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 3:13pm

It sounds like he desperately wanted to be an actor but has no talent. It’s interesting how that’s the one thing money can’t buy you: acting roles. And even if connections can buy you one role or a short stunt casting cameo, it can’t buy you an acting career.

Updated On: 6/30/25 at 03:13 PM

[BentleyB]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 3:51pm

I was reading his husband’s book.  When I found out that Jordan Roth was his husband, I took the book  and walked over to the trash and threw it away.   He is famous only for his wealth and nothing more.  He wasn’t born with a silver spoon.  It was a silver shovel and backhoe.

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 4:15pm

BentleyB said: "I was reading his husband’s book. When I found out that Jordan Roth was his husband, I took the book and walked over to the trash and threw it away. He is famous only for his wealth and nothing more. He wasn’t born with a silver spoon. It was a silver shovel and backhoe."

It’s very interesting that his husband’s book is basically all about him being gay, but now Roth doesn’t seem to be identifying as anything in particular. I wonder how that shapes or reshapes his husband’s understanding of his own sexuality.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/30/25 at 5:27pm

I think Jordan Roth very strongly identifies these days as Jordan Roth. 

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 7/1/25 at 7:01am

Leisie93 said: "It sounds like he desperately wanted to be an actor but has no talent. It’s interesting how that’s the one thing money can’t buy you: acting roles. And even if connections can buy you one role or a shortstunt casting cameo, it can’t buy you an acting career."

Citizen Kane tried…