Episode 9: Michael Mayer

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Tony nominated director of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" talks casting Neil Patrick Harris, the show's long traipse to Broadway, his other hit shows including "Spring Awakening," (Tony Award) "American Idiot," and "Thoroughly Modern Millie," and tells the definitive of how Sutton Foster was elevated from understudy to Millie's title role.

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0:00.0	I'm Annalee Ashford.
0:01.0	I'm Andrew Keenan Bolcher.
0:02.0	Hi, I'm Eden Espinoza.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Laura Osmus, and you're listening to Theatre People.
0:07.0	Hello, fellow Theater People.
0:16.0	Welcome to Episode 9 of the Theater People Podcast.
0:19.0	I'm Patrick Hines, your host.
0:25.6	Michael Mayer has directed some of the most popular musicals of our time. Spring Awakening,
0:29.7	American Idiot, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, just to name a few, along the way discovering many of this generation's most gifted Broadway performers. This season, he's back, this time
0:34.5	at the helm of one of the most anticipated productions in years,
0:41.4	Headwig and the Angry Inch, which stars one of the most popular actors working today,
0:46.3	Neil Patrick Harris. Mayor has a long history with the show, going back to the 1990s, when he worked with John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, who were then developing the character
0:49.6	at bars and off-off-off Broadway theater spaces on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
0:54.4	We're thrilled that Michael made time to talk to us to discuss Headwigs' long trapes to Broadway,
0:58.7	as well as his many other career highlights.
1:17.5	Thank you. We are really truly thrilled and honor to have you here.
1:19.0	Thank you for making time for us.
1:20.2	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:20.6	Thanks.
1:21.8	We're a little grassrootsy.
1:25.2	So if you hear some like audition noise in the hallway, just try to ignore it, listeners.
1:28.3	I always try to ignore audition noise in the hallway.
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