2024-06-20
49 分钟Broadway operates on a winner-take-most business model. A runaway hit like "Stereophonic" — which just won five Tony Awards — will create a few big winners. But even the stars of the show will have to go elsewhere to make real money. (Part two of a two-part series.)
Last week on the show, we told you about an unusual new play on Broadway called Stereophonic.
It is a long, intimate, funny and totally gripping show about a co ed rock band in the 1970s as they record an album that will turn out to be a huge hit.
Stereophonic itself has turned out to be a huge hit.
If you watched the Tony awards the other night, you saw superstars like Alicia Keys and Jay Z, Daniel Radcliffe, even Hillary Clinton, who co produced a Broadway musical this season.
But it was stereophonic, the play with a bunch of nobodies.
As one cast member said during the Tony awards that stole the show, winning five awards.
Here is the playwright David Ajme accepting his award for best play.
This was a very hard journey to get this play up here.
Michael McKeel and Fran Offenhauser, who gave me a place to live for seven years so that I could write this play.
It's really hard to make a career in the arts.
We need to fund the arts in America.
It is the hallmark of a civilized society.
When I interviewed Ajme a couple weeks ago, I asked him what it's like to be at the vortex of a huge hit.
He has been writing plays for a couple decades, but this is his first show on Broadway.
Here's what he told us.
I feel like I've been in a car accident.
We all feel that way.
We're just totally dislocated.
It doesn't feel good.
It feels weirdly bad.