Powerhouse producer Eva Price on the business of Broadway

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4.8 • 545 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Eva Price quit her job at ABC News at 26 to chase her dream of becoming a theater producer. Fifteen years later, with three Tony Awards, more than 18 Broadway credits and a place on the Broadway League’s board of governors, she’s a theater powerhouse. She took home a Tony this year for an edgy new version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” and she’s leading production of a new musical, “Jagged Little Pill,” inspired by the Alanis Morissette album. Kai Ryssdal sat down with Price inside Sardi’s restaurant in New York City, a place as synonymous with Broadway as the Tonys themselves. They talked about what a producer does, how the industry is changing and why Broadway matters.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Kai Rizdahl.
0:09.9	Thanks for downloading this episode of the Corner Office podcast.
0:12.9	My guest today is a woman I met up with last week in a restaurant.
0:17.5	Hey, I'm fine.
0:18.1	Nice to see you.
0:18.6	How are you?
0:20.0	In Manhattan, 44th Street just off of Broadway, New York City.
0:23.8	I want you to tell me who you are and where we are.
0:26.2	Okay.
0:26.8	I'm Eva Price.
0:28.1	I'm a Broadway producer.
0:29.8	And we are in Sardis, which is a famed Broadway restaurant, known for its lunch and dinners and post-work bar.
0:38.7	Home of the Tonys, right?
0:40.8	Is this where they're starting?
0:42.4	Yes.
0:44.7	You do know everything.
0:45.7	Sardis is also known for the hundreds of caricatures of theater celebrities hanging up on the wall.
0:50.4	I was actually just looking at how many I could identify it.
0:53.2	How are you doing? Terrible. Terrible. I got Liz Smith. I got Carol Burnett was actually just looking at how many I could identify it. How are you doing?
0:54.8	Terrible.
0:55.4	Terrible.
0:55.7	I got Liz Smith.
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