Producer Kevin McCollum

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

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4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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It is such a pleasure to welcome three-time Tony winning Producer Kevin McCollum to our show! Kevin is well known in the industry for being the kind of producer that can spot something special miles--and years--away from being a fully formed product. This is the guys who, waaaaaaaaaay back in the early 90s saw a very early workshop of RENT and made a promise to Jonathan Larson--AT THE WORKSHOP'S INTERMISSION--that he would get the show to Broadway. In addition to a MILLION other shows, Kevin ...

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0:18.9	Yeah, I'm Lynn Manuel Miranda. I'm Celia Kean Bolger. This is Queen Leslie. I'm
0:23.6	Robin de Hesuze. I'm Aaron Davy. Hi, this is Ellen Marie Marsh. I'm LaShawn. I'm Telle
0:27.9	Leong. Hi, I'm Eden Espinoza. I'm Laura Osniss. I'm Katie Finnerin. Hi, I'm Tanya Pinkins.
0:33.0	I'm Karen Levo, and you are listening to The Theater People Podcast.
0:41.8	Welcome to the Theater People Podcast. I'm Patrick Hines, your host.
0:46.8	Today we have something really special for you, you guys, because today we get to share with you the interview we did with the legendary visionary producer Kevin McCollum.
0:51.7	This man's eye for discovering new talent and seeing potential in bare bones
0:55.7	off, off, off, Broadway shows is truly unparalleled in the business. This is the guy who saw
1:02.0	rent in its earliest stages as a workshop and walked right up to Jonathan Larson, pulled out his
1:06.8	checkbook, and asked how much money Larson would want to let Kevin produce it. I mean, this guy is
1:11.7	responsible for bringing rent to Broadway. And of course, that was just the beginning of his career.
1:17.1	He also discovered Lin-Manuel Miranda and helped shape in the Heights into the Tony winning
1:21.1	masterpiece it became. He also produced Anna DeVier Smith's Twilight, and Avenue Q, the drowsy chaperone,
1:27.2	title of show,
1:28.3	Hand to God, and so many more.
1:30.8	We sat down with him to discuss two of his latest projects, Motown the Musical, which he produced
1:35.5	for Broadway back in 2013, and had a quick return to Broadway this summer, and something
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