“Rent” & “Hamilton” Power Producer is a Theater Kid (w/ Jeffrey Seller)
Hot Takes & Deep Dives
Jess Rothschild
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Jess is joined by 4x Tony Award winning Broadway producer JEFFREY SELLER, best known for “Hamilton,” “Rent,” “In the Heights” & “Avenue Q.” Topics — his review of “Sunset Blvd,” being the creative nurturer and critic to Jonathan Larson & Lin Manuel Miranda, inventing the Broadway lotto system, crippling anxiety of opening night reviews, renovating his dream Upper West Side townhouse & more!
Jeffrey Seller's memoir THEATER KID is available now!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives, and I am here with the man the New York Times calls the CEO of Hamilton. He is the producer |
| 0:23.6 | behind Rent, Hamilton, Avenue Q, in the Heights. You have four Tony Awards? Hello. Yes. |
| 0:32.4 | I have four Tony Awards for Best Musical. For Best Musical. |
| 0:37.7 | All right. |
| 0:37.9 | Calm down. |
| 0:38.4 | We're not done with your intro. |
| 0:39.7 | Sit tight. |
| 0:41.7 | And you are one of the most successful producers working on Broadway. |
| 0:46.8 | Your book, Theat Kid, is out now. |
| 0:50.4 | I absolutely loved this. |
| 0:53.3 | Hi, Jeffrey Seller. |
| 0:59.3 | Thank you. Thank you, Jess. And I so appreciate your kind words. How are you? I'm great. I just got here on my bicycle. I did my beikram yoga class this |
| 1:06.8 | morning. It was my 15th class in a row. And I can feel all kinds of great vibes going through my |
| 1:14.2 | body right now. You're also a runner. I also run and sometimes do triathlons. I know you do the |
| 1:21.0 | Bickram yoga, but were you ever into, for some reason you strike me as a spinner? Like, were you ever |
| 1:27.4 | into like flywheel or so you seem like |
| 1:30.4 | the type that is so strange i have done flywheel i have done soul cycle but i like if i'm going to go |
| 1:39.3 | cycling to get on my bike and go so uh i'll cycle up the George Washington Bridge. I'll cycle up 9W. I'll cycle in the |
| 1:48.9 | Hamptons. I like to be out on the road. Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, otherwise you're in that |
| 1:54.2 | 108 degree room. I get why you'd want some fresh air. Yeah. We're starting in a very sporty way, Jess. |
| 2:03.8 | Listen, I know what I'm doing. |
| 2:06.1 | I know what I'm doing. |
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