Richard Skipper Celebrates Stages: A Theater Memoir with Albert Poland 3/12/22
For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/PUshNVucPFI Legendary Producer and General Manager Albert Poland's work has spanned the dawn of Off-Broadway, the Broadway blockbusters of the 1980s and 1990s, and beyond. He worked with them all, from an unknown Sam Shepard and David Mamet, to Edward Albee and Arthur Miller. He was also the founder of the Judy Garland Fan Club as a young teen. An insider's view of his many legendary productions, although there is plenty of that, from The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors to Long Day's Journey Into Night, and from The Grapes of Wrath to The Boy from Oz. Witty, colorful, unconventional, and wickedly insightful, Poland has had a career that comprises a fascinating portrait of the social and cultural landscape of New York from the early 60s to the present, seen through the lens of a life in the theater (and yes, he managed the play with that title). We talk about Judy Garland, Hugh Jackman, and Liza Minnelli, as well as such theatrical titans as Cameron Mackintosh, Gerald Schoenfeld, Bernard B. Jacobs, and Ellen Stewart. Poland is the author of Stages: A Theatrical Memoir