Jeffrey Seller had made a name for himself as a prolific Broadway producer with “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “In the Heights.” Then in summer 2013, he …
(Yes, he decided, people can find out the result when they get home. Access contact info, org charts, active projects and more for Jeffrey Seller and 80,000+ other executives and producers. What has been the pricing for “Book of Mormon” tickets in Chicago? I got a political science degree because I loved politics. It’s how his industry keeps score. He was at a place in his life where he needed to do this alone, and maybe I didn’t quite understand how powerful that was for him.”Last summer, I attended a meeting of the show’s marketing team. The cast album, improbably, reached No.
Jeffrey Seller, producer and CEO of Adventureland best known for his work on Rent (1996), Avenue Q (2003), In the Heights (2008), and Hamilton (2015); excerpted from an interview with the National Museum of American History, August 9, 2017. Someone else brought up the idea of running an ad during the Super Bowl. For Seller, it presents an existential question. Just a few days after all the excitement of the opening of “Hamilton,” he flew to Palo Alto, Calif., to direct a workshop of a musical made from Jules Feiffer’s young-adult novel, “The Man in the Ceiling.” He spent his days in a small rehearsal room, some of the time sitting on the floor cross-legged, as he instructed a group of mostly young actors circled around him. For “Hamilton,” which does not have special effects or even an elaborate set, casting is everything. Kamen's New York-based production company already had a foothold in the documentary space, with such credits as Errol Morris' 2003 Oscar winner The Fog of … Nothing about dates, how to get tickets or the names of the lead actors. They had to make a choice to go with one parent or the other, in a sense, and they chose Seller.Seller and McCollum put a good public face on their split — they said it was mutual and held out the possibility of producing together again — but it is not hard to see it as a painful professional divorce. Based on all the promoting I’d done of all my shows, I had decided to get a job in PR. Who are they? (The students themselves will pay just $10.)
Pretty soon, he said, “I’m going to have a full production.”Jeffrey Seller (foreground) with cast members last June during the first day of rehearsals for the Broadway production of “Hamilton.”Lin-Manuel Miranda (left) as Alexander Hamilton and Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr. They were my first theatrical employers in New York City, and I’ve been friends with them ever since.I did not set out to try to bring my political opinions or my political interests into theater.
The money from these secondary-market sales goes to brokers, many of whom get their hands on tickets by using computer programs, or “bots,” to scoop up huge volumes of seats each time a new batch becomes available. Seller replied, genially enough, that he thought that would be a complete waste of money, considering all the free publicity the show was attracting.“Hamilton” hits a sweet spot you would not have imagined existed, somehow managing to be hip, sentimental, irreverent and deeply patriotic all at the same time.
“It became known as ‘the hip-hop musical,’ and that unfortunately limited the audience. Yet, Seller says: “We live in a real world, and in that world, people are allowed to raise their hands and say, ‘May I please have more?’ And I don’t blame them. I had no idea how one moves to New York and creates a career in the theater. Within less than a year, I was able to jump to a job at the Broadway producers Barry and Fran Weissler’s office.
“They are the ones bringing this show to life,” he told me. “It was a situation we didn’t ask to be in,” Miranda told me. Seller is working with the British producer Cameron Mackintosh on a “Hamilton” production to open in London in 2017, which will be followed by companies in Continental Europe and Australia. It was profitable, but Seller thinks it could have lasted longer. The demand is heightened by a distinct lack of supply. Making money is not part of the process.”It is, though, occasionally a consequence of the process. It was basically a free four-minute commercial in front of some 25 million viewers. “He wasn’t providing.” I guessed that his father might have also been the type to react badly to having a gay son; instead, this evoked a tender memory. What is the true market value for a ticket to “Hamilton”? If he sold his tickets for, say, $800, there would be a bigger pot of money to divvy up. I had the strange experience of being a Jewish kid in which my family kept dropping in socioeconomic status and not rising, and it was painful and humiliating. And now I can say theater is my vocation, and politics is my avocation. Most cast members are working on 52-week contracts, which began July 13, the first day of Broadway previews, and those who intend to stay will soon be negotiating new deals.A complicating factor is that the money being divided derives from the face value of tickets that range from $67 to $477, hardly small change but short of what the tickets are fetching on StubHub and other secondary-market sites — anywhere from $500 to $2,000 or more. Partner / Executive Producer. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Jeffrey Seller, with business partner Kevin McCollum, produced such landmark shows as Rent, Avenue Q and In the Heights.When Heights won best musical at the Tonys in 2008, the pair hoisted Miranda, its composer and lyricist, on their shoulders onstage at Radio City Music Hall..
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Today, The Walt Disney Company, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeffrey Seller and Thomas Kail announced that Disney+ will fast track the premiere of the filmed version of the original Broadway production of Hamilton.The 11-time-Tony Award®-, GRAMMY Award®-, Olivier Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning stage musical will now arrive on the streaming service on July 3, 2020.