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| Does the us have any billionaire producers? | |
| Last Edit: dramedy 07:57 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| Posted by: dramedy 07:50 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
| In reply to: "It turns out that the American theater has no towering figure even attempting to lead it through this crisis, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber has in Britain. " - Michael_Portantiere 04:14 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| Most are organizations like the shuberts. Sondheim (not a producer) is worth $20m. Shockingly low considering how many landmark shows he has done and I don’t seem him as extravagant spender pissing away his money over the years. ALW is worth $1.2 billion. I can’t think of any broadway producers with even close to that capital. I did a search “ALW gives millions to actors” and the only thing that came up was $500k to actors fund made by broadcasting his taped shows. So there aren’t any articles of how he has helped out the theater folks by donating millions of his money that would be a very small percentage of his billion dollars. It’s all about opening theaters to make more money and the actors/crew will benefit with jobs at their own risk of health. If he really cared he would still be paying his casts (even a reduced amount) during shutdown to help the people survive that made him a billionaire | |
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| re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 09:25 am EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: Does the us have any billionaire producers? - dramedy 07:50 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| First, assuming you mean active producers (as opposed to those mostly just dealing with money), no. Second, I don't know where you saw that as Sondheim's net worth, but it is patently wrong. (Depending on how and in what a person holds their net worth, it is not possible to superficially estimate reasonably.) Third, if you believe Forbes, ALW is not a billionaire. | |
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| re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 06:48 pm EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? - ryhog 09:25 am EST 03/11/21 | |
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| How do you know Sondheim’s net worth? | |
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| re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:57 pm EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? - KingSpeed 06:48 pm EST 03/11/21 | |
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| I don't but I know it is significantly more than $20 million, just based on the value of the real property I know he owns and the value of his literary property that I am aware of (and that is likely pretty complete). I assume he has other assets but there is no need to snoop to recognize the wrongness of of the $20mil figure. It appears, from a different post, that Dramedy's "source" was google which in turn gave its answer based on a fairly bogus website called celebritynetworth.com, which for some reason seems to use $20million as the default for anyone they can't find info for. | |
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| re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 02:51 pm EST 03/12/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? - ryhog 08:57 pm EST 03/11/21 | |
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| That's a good point. If Sondheim still own that townhouse on the east side (the one next door to Katharine Hepburn's former house), that itself could be worth $20M or more. | |
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| re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 08:52 am EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: Does the us have any billionaire producers? - dramedy 07:50 pm EST 03/10/21 | |
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| I’m sure Stephen Schwartz is worth what, 10 times that much. Montello too. I wonder how much Walter Bobbie is worth.. | |
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| $62m as of last year | |
| Posted by: dramedy 09:19 am EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Does the us have any billionaire producers? - KingSpeed 08:52 am EST 03/11/21 | |
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| For Schwartz. Bobbie is $35m. A Billion is a lot of money. | |
| Link | https://www.google.com/amp/s/wallmine.com/people/4241/stephen-s-schwartz.amp |
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| re: $62m as of last year | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 06:47 pm EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: $62m as of last year - dramedy 09:19 am EST 03/11/21 | |
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| Can’t believe what you read on internet but wow for Bobbie. He directed a concert. Amazing. | |
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| He’s probably wrong person | |
| Posted by: dramedy 10:06 am EST 03/11/21 | |
| In reply to: $62m as of last year - dramedy 09:19 am EST 03/11/21 | |
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| This says $10m which does seem low for wicked composer. But even with the success of that musical, it’s a few million a year for 4% or so of the gross. Broadway has made $1.3b in sales and that’s about $52m as composer/lyrist. Multiple by several productions is a lot but not a billion. | |
| Link | https://www.idolnetworth.com/stephen-schwartz-net-worth-186357 |
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