As one of the “producers” who the poster thinks is not worth her/his $85, I confess I’m not a tony award winning broadway producer, just a drama desk winning off-broadway producer, I felt the need to comment. I have done this event as a producer almost a dozen times. I’ve never been paid. I’ve never tried to sell anyone anything. Except when I paid my $85 to sit at the writers side of the table and pitch a hip hop musical I co-wrote to eleven producers of shows no one ever heard of like Grease, Spider-Man, Promises, Promises. With more than a dozen producing Tony’s among them.
Had the poster stuck to trumpian hyperbole about the value of the program to the poster I would have ignored it. But while they are entitled to their opinions they are not to alternative facts. In this program: No producer is paid. No producer is selling anything.
I’m now involved in hip hop theater, the first thing I learned, and something that this poster epitomized “haters gonna hate” |
