Business of Broadway — Financials, $$, Flops (w/ Katharine Quinn)

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by Katharine Quinn, owner of the Broadway media and marketing agency And That’s Showbiz, currently representing The Great Gatsby, Maybe Happy Ending, The Roommate and more. Topics: the business (financials) of Broadway: how productions are funded, why 8 out of 10 shows never recoup their investment, Oh Mary, do traditional reviews matter, vanity projects, Rosie O’Donnell’s “Taboo” flop, how to predict the "health" of a show, digital rush & lotto, upcoming in 2025 and more!

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1:18.0	Welcome back to hot takes and Deep Dives, and I am here with Catherine Quinn, the owner of, and that's showbiz, a Broadway media and marketing agency representing the Great Gatsby,
1:23.8	maybe happy ending.
1:25.0	She's also worked on the roommate with my queen, Patty Lepone and Mia Farrow.
1:29.9	Hi, Catherine Quinn. Hi, how's it going? Great. How are you? I'm good. Thank you so much for
1:35.6	having me on. I'm very excited to do this. I'm excited to meet you. I've been following you on
1:40.8	YouTube for quite a while now. And the last episode that I published of this show was kind of like a year-end, like,
1:50.1	theater roundup, basically recapped everything that we loved this year in theater.
1:56.1	And my underlying feeling is that most of the stuff produced on Broadway is for the easiest audience to please.
2:06.8	Okay.
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