Musical Actor/Performer
Appearances
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
I don't generally like to raise a half a million dollars and have it go down the tubes. That is Richard Winkler.
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
I thought that the production was an absolutely first-class piece of musical theater. I do not understand why it did not work. I thought every single baby boomer who saw the show would want to come back and see it again. I was very devastated. I didn't understand it. And I don't like stuff that I don't understand.
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
You know, there's so much alchemy that's involved in a successful Broadway musical or a successful Broadway play. I'm going to see O'Mary this evening.
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
I understand I'm going to laugh a lot. Everybody tells me I'm going to laugh a lot. But who in the world would ever think that a show that opened off Broadway with two unknowns in it would become the big Broadway sensation of the season.
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
Oh, it applies here, too. One hundred percent. One hundred percent.
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
I think it's going to be very successful. But it also depends on what city you go to and how long you're there. The world is not the same as it used to be. And the appetite for what we do is not the same.
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
Lights up on Washington Heights up at the break of day. I wake up and I got this little punk I gotta chase away. Pop the gray, get the crack of dawn. Sing while I wipe down the awning. There you are.
Freakonomics Radio
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
I thought, I've never heard rap and Broadway choral music married together so beautifully.