“Rebecca” the musical was supposed to be the next “Phantom of the Opera”, Broadway’s multi-billion dollar hit. Instead, “Rebecca” turned into one of the wildest, most bizarre, true-crime scandals the stage has ever seen... Read More
From the show: Burnt: How The Show "Rebecca" Set Broadway Ablaze
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“Rebecca” the musical was supposed to be the next “Phantom of the Opera”, Broadway’s multi-billion dollar hit. Instead, “Rebecca” turned into one of the wildest, most bizarre, true-crime scandals the stage has ever seen.
When a multi-millionaire stranger suddenly dies, a fire is lit that ends up consuming everyone involved in the show. In Burnt, the story of “Rebecca” winds its way through secret stings, many courtrooms, prison and freedom — and when the smoke finally clears, we’re left to wonder: who is really to blame and how in the hell did this happen?
Reported and hosted by Blake Ross. Edited by Alan Seales. Supervising Producers Dori Berinstein and Brittany Bigelow. Special thanks to Philip Boroff.
Transcript
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[0:03] Blake Ross: On a cloudy day in March 2021, Ben Sprecker sat sobbing in a New York City courtroom.
[0:09] Blake Ross: The 66-year-old notorious producer had been humiliated two years prior when a New York Post photographer snapped a photograph of him in a t-shirt and gym shorts, being led out of his Harlem home in handcuffs.
[0:22] Blake Ross: It was a different type of press attention than Sprecker had been used to getting.
[0:26] Blake Ross: For the decade prior, he had been tied up in one of Broadway's most bizarre crime stories.
[0:32] Blake Ross: There were scheming Wall Street types, fake deaths, sabotage from the inside, millions of dollars just vanishing into thin air.
[0:42] Blake Ross: There was this stuff that probably would have made a great Broadway play had it not been so ridiculously hard to believe.
[1:05] Blake Ross: You think of, oh my god, how awful, how bizarre.
[1:10] Blake Ross: It's so unbelievable, and it's so it's so fucked up.
[1:16] Blake Ross: Just when you thought that it couldn't get any more evil.
[1:25] Blake Ross: Like it's pretty dark.
[1:28] Blake Ross: This whole story is an opera of bad choices.
[1:32] Blake Ross: Wow.
[1:33] Blake Ross: This is bad.
[1:40] Blake Ross: Subscribe now at bpn.fm slash burnt.
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