![]() “Well, I think you’ll hear that song in it at some point.”įor now, POTUS, and its delirious mix of swearing, innuendo, door slamming, and Rachel Dratch tripping hilariously for an extended period of time, is her immediate preoccupation. So, will the famous song itself, “New York, New York” feature? Stroman laughed. I feel quite lucky to have culture outside my front door every which way I turn.” I am inspired by art and follow the exhibits. ![]() I go to the park and museums, ballet, and opera all the time. Stroman, 67, lives in midtown, near Central Park. “It has that melting pot feel of all different characters.” “New York is definitely a character in the show,” Stroman says. The show is about a year from fruition, and comprised of a multitude of stories set in New York in the past and present, starting in 1947 “with people coming back from the war and hopefully getting their smallpox vaccinations,” and ending in 2023. “It’s the ultimate New York coming together in my life and my art,” Stroman told The Daily Beast. She reveals to The Daily Beast the next musical she is working on is entitled New York, New York. Mainly positively reviewed, including by this critic, it may scoop some Tony Award nominations Monday morning. It was a few weeks before the opening of POTUS (Shubert Theatre, to August 14), the all-woman, gale-force, expletive-filled Broadway farce written by Selina Fillinger which Stroman is directing, about seven women trying to save a (mostly) unseen president from himself. She laughed merrily after saying this a sense of joy and engagement with her craft thrummed throughout our conversation. I have stuck to that maxim, and it does work. We can’t get caught up in successes or failures, you just need to do the work. Stroman, the five-time-Tony and many-other-award-winning director and choreographer, told The Daily Beast she has always followed Prince’s advice to the letter, indeed thinks “it’s how we keep going forward. Whatever happens, whether it’s a success or failure, you must start your new show the very next day.’” “He said, ‘No matter what show you’re working on, when it opens, the very next day you meet about a new show. Her good friend and longtime collaborator, the famed Broadway director and producer Harold Prince, gave Susan Stroman “one of the greatest pieces of advice” she has ever received.
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