Special guest Sonia Friedman talks career-firsts, the hardest shows she’s worked on and why Broadway’s model is broken

Welcome to this week’s episode of the WhatsOnStage Podcast!

With Tony Award-winning record breaker Stereophonic in previews in the West End, chief critic Sarah Crompton and managing editor Alex Wood hopped over to Sonia Friedman Productions offices to talk to Friedman in a wide-ranging interview.

Topics include the state of new writing in the West End, star casting, why the New York model is so hard and why Broadway box office reporting is causing headaches all round. Plus – how she’s trying to find the next generation of audiences with Hugh Jackman, and what exactly about the future of UK theatre concerns her!

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