Manny Azenberg is a theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years. He first met Neil Simon in 1963 and their professional association began with The Sunshine Boys in 1972 and continued with God's Favorite, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, The Goodbye Girl, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor, among others. His additional credits include Mark Twain Tonight!, The Rothschilds, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Sticks and Bones, The Wiz, The Real Thing, Sunday in the Park with George, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Rent, Movin' Out, Stones in His Pockets, and Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of La Bohème.
Listen in to hear Manny talk about:
- The greatest things he learned from David Merrick and Alexander Cohen, and what Merrick would think of Broadway today.
- How he feels about having so many producers on a project . . . and could we ever go back to just one?
- How playing baseball with Robert Redford changed his life.
- His mantra that helps him get over the shows that don’t work.
- What his Yale class thought when they read Bright Beach Memoirs and how that taught him to evaluate shows.
And buckets more.
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