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The Jon Taffer Podcast

Kristin Chenoweth: Saving Broadway in the Midst of a Crisis.

The Jon Taffer Podcast

Jon Taffer

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jon is joined by American actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth to talk about the effects the pandemic has on Broadway, and how putting your employees first is the key to getting through this crisis. Jon also discusses his current state of excepting quarantine and moving forward. For more Jon Taffer, visit JonTaffer.com  Follow Jon on IG: @jontaffer  Follow Jon on Twitter: @jontaffer   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

So what happens on Broadway?

0:02.5

So obviously outdoor shows and things like that sound interesting, but they're not high production shows.

0:07.9

And that's a very different environment than an indoor theater, of course.

0:11.0

So we have to start with some kind of spacing.

0:14.3

And then we can add a few seats.

0:15.9

And then we can add a few seats.

0:17.8

And the theater business is also struggling with this.

0:20.6

You know, if you have a 400

0:21.6

seat theater and now your volume goes down to 200 seats or 180 seats because of spacing,

0:27.7

and maybe you do clusters of two with two seats, a cluster of four with two seats, a cluster of

0:32.3

six based upon the parties and stuff, that the whole economic model changes.

0:38.4

I don't want to share someone else's thoughts. I don't want to share someone else's thoughts.

0:41.5

I want to create my own original thoughts.

0:44.1

I want to create my own original solutions.

0:47.0

I want to look at situations and come up with my own phrasing, my own words, and do it my way.

0:52.1

This is the John Taffer podcast.

0:55.9

Shut it down.

0:57.6

Well, my 31st day locked in my house in quarantine.

1:04.2

And I got to tell you, I'm finding that I'm adjusting pretty well.

1:08.1

I mean, I'm sure nobody loves this, of course.

1:09.9

None of us love it.

1:10.9

But I'm finding that the 31st day is a little less stressful than the first day. The first day,

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