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Emanuel "Manny" Azenberg is an American theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years.

Emanuel "Manny" Azenberg is an American theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years.

Manny Azenberg & Mike

SHOWS: Rent, Hamilton, 24 Neil Simon playsOne of Broadway's most prolific producers, Tony Award winner Manny Azenberg, joins Rob and Kevin to look back on his producing career, discuss the process of producing for the legendary Neil Simon, and walk listeners through the ins and outs of producing and general managing in the 20th and 21st Centuries.Manny pulls back the curtain on his career to discuss how he angrily chased Neil Simon around Manhattan, what it was like working for abominable showman David Merrick, and why he thinks the theater is the nation's moral compass.Also, Manny shines the spotlight on Mercedes Ruhl, James Goldman, and Tom Stoppard!Become a sponsor of Behind The Curtain and get early access to interviews, private playlists, and advanced knowledge of future guests so you can ask the legends your own questions. Go to: http://bit.ly/2i7nWC4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SHOWS: Rent, Hamilton, 24 Neil Simon plays One of Broadway's most prolific producers, Tony Award winner Manny Azenberg, joins Rob and Kevin to look back on his producing career, discuss the process of producing for the legendary Neil Simon, and walk listeners through the ins and outs of producing and general managing in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Manny pulls back the curtain on his career to discuss how he angrily chased Neil Simon around Manhattan, what it was like working for abominable showman David Merrick, and why he thinks the theater is the nation's moral compass. Also, Manny shines the spotlight on Mercedes Ruhl, James Goldman, and Tom Stoppard! Become a sponsor of Behind The Curtain and get early access to interviews, private playlists, and advanced knowledge of future guests so you can ask the legends your own questions. Go to: <a href="http://bit.ly/2i7nWC4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2i7nWC4</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

#255 MANNY AZENBERG, Producer

Manny Azenberg is a theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years. He first met Neil Simon in 1963 and their professional association began with The Sunshine Boys in 1972 and continued with God's Favorite, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, The Goodbye Girl, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor, among others. His additional credits include Mark Twain Tonight!, The Rothschilds, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Sticks and Bones, The Wiz, The Real Thing, Sunday in the Park with George, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Rent, Movin' Out, Stones in His Pockets, and Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of La Bohème.Listen in to hear Manny talk about: The greatest things he learned from David Merrick and Alexander Cohen, and what Merrick would think of Broadway today. How he feels about having so many producers on a project . . . and could we ever go back to just one? How playing baseball with Robert Redford changed his life. His mantra that helps him get over the shows that don’t work. What his Yale class thought when they read Bright Beach Memoirs and how that taught him to evaluate shows. And buckets more.Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBwaywww.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manny Azenberg is a theatre producer and general manager whose professional relationship with playwright Neil Simon spans thirty-three years. He first met Neil Simon in 1963 and their professional association began with The Sunshine Boys in 1972 and continued with God's Favorite, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, The Goodbye Girl, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor, among others. His additional credits include Mark Twain Tonight!, The Rothschilds, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Sticks and Bones, The Wiz, The Real Thing, Sunday in the Park with George, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Rent, Movin' Out, Stones in His Pockets, and Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of La Bohème. Listen in to hear Manny talk about:<ul> <li>The greatest things he learned from David Merrick and Alexander Cohen, and what Merrick would think of Broadway today.</li> <li>How he feels about having so many producers on a project . . . and could we ever go back to just one?</li> <li>How playing baseball with Robert Redford changed his life.</li> <li>His mantra that helps him get over the shows that don’t work.</li> <li>What his Yale class thought when they read Bright Beach Memoirs and how that taught him to evaluate shows.</li> </ul>And buckets more. Keep up with me: @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/kendavenportbway/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KenDavenportBway</a><a href="http://www.theproducersperspective.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.theproducersperspective.com</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

86 – Manny Azenberg

On the eve of the reopening of Spider-Man, we invited Emanuel Azenberg and Michael David, two successful Broadway producers to tell us what it's like to be in the center of the storm of a show that isn't working out.