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Broadway Vet Rudy on Hamilton's Success at The Tonys (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: Where it happened? No one really knows how the Dame
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  Speaker 1: to him is Sam Rudy. He is the founder of
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  Speaker 1: Sam Rudy Media Relations. He's the press rep for Hamilton's
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  Speaker 1: the Musical on Broadway. He is also a veteran of
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  Speaker 1: many decades. He is respected, read any story about him,
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  Speaker 1: and loved by everybody on Broadway. Just about Sam. Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much. It's nice to be back here
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  Speaker 1: after a few year absence. It's great to have you back.
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  Speaker 1: To you. Kathleen and meet to meet him a Broadway
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  Speaker 1: Fionado himself. In fact, his wife luckily got bat to
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  Speaker 1: see Hamilton's recently. Am I right? I did not get
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  Speaker 1: to see if No, but your wife did. Yes. So
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  Speaker 1: along with everyone else, it's hard to find people who
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  Speaker 1: don't like Hamilton, who in fact don't love Hamilton's, and
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  Speaker 1: more to the point, who aren't obsessed by Hamilton's. They
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  Speaker 1: dunaway called me today. Can I just say that for tickets?
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  Speaker 1: For tickets, well, gosh, can't you afford to pony up
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  Speaker 1: the thousand or was it five thousand? However much it
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  Speaker 1: is now I have to ask you. The closest I
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  Speaker 1: got to the Tony's was TV and actually live on
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  Speaker 1: their boys side, So we stood outside of the theater
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  Speaker 1: to be in that neighborhood. We don't get The Tonys
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  Speaker 1: are early up there every so, all right, that's a
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  Speaker 1: great neighborhood for it, because you sense a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the residents they are really enjoy having the experience of
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  Speaker 1: having the Toney's on their street. How did you get
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  Speaker 1: involved with Hamilton's um? I uh. The producer Jeffrey Seller.
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  Speaker 1: I have worked with him since U two thousand three.
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  Speaker 1: Other musical that's still running in New York called Avenue Q,
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  Speaker 1: which won the Tony Award for Best Musical in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and four. And uh, I've I've worked for for
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey on other checks through the years, and but we
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  Speaker 1: hadn't worked together in a while. And last season he
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  Speaker 1: produced the Last Ship Stings Musical, which was a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: experience for all of us, apart from the fact that
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  Speaker 1: it didn't run very long. Um. And shortly after we
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  Speaker 1: announced that the Last Ship was going to close, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I thought maybe I should consider semi retirement because I thought,
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  Speaker 1: without a big Broadway show, I'm not sure if I
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  Speaker 1: need to work full time in the in the business,
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  Speaker 1: in the city and so and so forth. Anyhow, he
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  Speaker 1: called me and said, you know I want to do
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  Speaker 1: I want you to do Hamilton, don't you And I
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  Speaker 1: said no, But I know now, and I guess retirement
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  Speaker 1: will wait. Sam taking a look at the results from
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's broadcast of the Emmys. This was from the beach.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't haven't heard that. I'm telling you here. This
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  Speaker 1: is the highest level of audience viewership in fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Eight point seven three million viewers an increase
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  Speaker 1: of thirty five over the ceremony. And I want to
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  Speaker 1: note that this does not include the last fifteen minutes
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  Speaker 1: of the broadcast, which aired outside of prime time. So
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  Speaker 1: clearly there's something going on that is drawing people to theater. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: tell me what has changed in your estimation, how it
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  Speaker 1: has become popular and has sustained itself in the age
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  Speaker 1: of the small screen, the big screen, and every other
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  Speaker 1: kind of screen. I would say that the brand of
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  Speaker 1: Broadway has probably never been healthier than it is now,
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  Speaker 1: and I would trace that back to oddly enough, September eleven.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Broadway was in good shape then, but as
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  Speaker 1: you recall, the day after September eleven, Giuliani and all
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  Speaker 1: of the elected officials and so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 1: the first place that they turned to to say, please
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  Speaker 1: help us send the message that New York is still
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  Speaker 1: functioning and we haven't been brought completely to our knees.
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  Speaker 1: Get your shows back on. And of course that's what
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  Speaker 1: theater people wanted to do. That's what they do, is
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  Speaker 1: they put on shows and they perform. And the addedge
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  Speaker 1: that show us go on certainly applied at a time
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  Speaker 1: like that. So I really feel that there was some
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  Speaker 1: kind of harmonic convergence or just a convergence of events
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  Speaker 1: and influence and desire at that time that has really
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  Speaker 1: helped elevate Broadway in the in the years since then.
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  Speaker 1: Noel Miranda, a hip hop musical of such scope and scale,
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  Speaker 1: calling on history, inspired by Ron Churner's incredible biography of
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  Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton. Does this signal a new wave in the theater,
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  Speaker 1: a new generation? What does it tell us about musical
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  Speaker 1: shows in general? Well, I mean people call it a
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  Speaker 1: game changer. Um, it's hard to imagine that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be seeing nothing but hip hop music was here
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  Speaker 1: on out. I don't think that's going to happen per
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  Speaker 1: se um. I think this was addressed on some of
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  Speaker 1: the acceptance speeches last night and some of the remarks
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  Speaker 1: made during the telecast, which is, if nothing else, Hamilton's
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  Speaker 1: has reminded us that anything is possible. Any subject is
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  Speaker 1: not too dear or not too unlikely to be turned
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  Speaker 1: into a work of art, and um, that's what Hamilton's is.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes I hear my word, when I hear myself call
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  Speaker 1: it a show, I thought, that's you know, it is
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  Speaker 1: so much more than a show. I mean, it is
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost a show, but it just turned people
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  Speaker 1: on in a way. The beautiful thing about Hamilton's It's
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  Speaker 1: brings so much story to so many people and it's
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  Speaker 1: great to be part of that. Thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Sam Rudy is the founder of Sam
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  Speaker 1: Rudy Media Relations and we leave you with a little
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