Craig Zadan
Producer
1949-04-15 – 2018-08-20
American producer and writer known for major stage and screen musicals, including Chicago and Hairspray. He was a longtime producing partner of Neil Meron and co-produced multiple Academy Awards telecasts.
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Quotes by Craig Zadan
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Neil and I are most thrilled that we were able to bring musical theatre to the enormous audience that 'The Sound of Music' reached.
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We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.
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Carrie Underwood clearly drove 'The Sound of Music.' For 'Peter Pan,' we had terrific actors but not stars, and we did not do nearly as well.
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If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'
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People think, 'Oh, you're doing 'The Wiz' because 'Empire' is such a big hit.' The truth is, staging this musical has been a dream of ours since the '90s, but the rights were tied up. It's just coincidental that, this year, when we were choosing a new musical, the rights were cleared.
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