Serving up ‘Waitress,’ streaming BroadwayHD, and Bob Iger on Disney’s future
The Business
KCRW
4.5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Disney CEO Bob Iger talks about the company’s many struggles, including his succession, selling ABC, and Marvel troubles during the New York Times’ DealBook Summit.
Then, we’re taking it to Broadway: Contributor Jeff Lunden speaks to Tony-winning producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley about their streaming platform, BroadwayHD. Lunden also talks with Waitress star Sara Bareilles and producer Jessie Nelson about the live capture and theatrical distribution of their hit musical show.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
| 0:05.0 | If you missed seeing the hit musical Waitress on Broadway, you might have a chance to catch it on the big screen. |
| 0:11.0 | The show was shot for theatrical release, which warms the heart of Sarah Borellis. |
| 0:15.7 | Waitress was her first musical, and she not only starred in it, but also wrote the music and lyrics. |
| 0:27.6 | It just was this wonderful experiment of a deep rooted love in the musical theater and a real naivete about the amount of heavy lifting it requires to create a musical. |
| 0:33.6 | But I'm really grateful I didn't know how hard it would be because it has been the great love of my life. |
| 0:39.3 | Borellis joins producer Jenny Nelson to talk about what went into the theatrical release of Waitress. |
| 0:44.8 | And Tony winning producer Stuart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley talk about another way to experience theater on their streaming service, Broadway HD. |
| 0:53.4 | But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from |
| 0:56.2 | KCRW. I am joined by my colleague in banter Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So the |
| 1:05.1 | moguls have been talking. There was a New York Times deal book summit in the last few days. David Zaslov was interviewed, |
| 1:12.5 | Bob Iger was interviewed. I think Bob Iger had the more interesting interview, so we'll talk |
| 1:17.2 | about that a little bit. He was asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin, a real reporter as opposed to David |
| 1:22.5 | Muir, who questioned him for the earlier Disney Town Hall. He was asked about a lot of issues that are major for Disney, |
| 1:29.5 | including succession. Iger said he's focusing on not making the same mistake twice. We didn't |
| 1:35.8 | specify, I think, what that was. But he said he's tried to conduct his own post-mortem |
| 1:40.5 | so that we as a company don't do it again. He may be throwing a little blame not on himself. |
| 1:46.3 | And what did we do wrong? |
| 1:47.9 | And we discovered certain things that we could do better. |
| 1:50.9 | Like not picking someone that Iger disliked so much that he was going to try to destroy him |
| 1:57.0 | when he was supposedly retired from the company. |
| 1:59.5 | Yeah, the use of we there is pretty funny, considering that the entire succession... |
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