Michael Arden
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So that's how far back this passion of mine goes.
It's all downhill from that.
But what an amazing first show to see.
It was an amazing first show to see.
But I want to talk about how you came upon that show and what made you so sure it would be right for Broadway.
I got an email from the producer Jeffrey Richards saying, I really like the work that you're doing right now with Once on this Island.
And there's a musical called Maybe Happy Ending written by two young writers who met at NYU.
And it's about robots in the future who fall in love.
And I thought, that's a terrible idea.
Isn't that the Jetsons?
Nothing to do with it.
I like, okay, you know, my phone wasn't ringing off the hook.
And certainly I hadn't done a new musical.
And I thought how wonderful that they would think of me for this.
And he said that the writers loved your work and would I consider directing a reading of it or something?
And I got in my car and drove upstate.