American - Producer | April 15, 1949 - August 20, 2018
When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.
Craig Zadan
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We wanted to take on social and political and LGBTQ stories which no one at the upper level of the entertainment industry ever really wants to do. So you have to fight, and you have to persuade, and you have to manipulate the studios and the networks. And you have to go back - over and over again - until they say yes.
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To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.
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It's expensive to produce musicals on television.
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We called the head of CBS and said, 'We know how network television feels about musicals. Would you even consider doing 'Gypsy?'' He said, 'If I did say yes, you'd have to have a big movie star who does not do TV.' I told him that, in our fantasy world, we'd like Bette Midler. He said, 'Get Bette Midler, and you have an on-the-air commitment.'
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A lot of people feel that 'Music Man' is a good movie musical.
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I was captivated by Stephanie Mills.
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In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.
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We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.
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We'd never do 'The Sound of Music' because the movie was perfect.
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It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don't work, then you're going to see everyone go back to the way it was before 'Chicago.'
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Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw 'Chicago' or 'Hairspray.'
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