Tom Viertel (DSC #226)

ATW: "Prolific producer Tom Viertel, who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as The Producers, Hairspray, and the John Doyle-directed Company and Sweeney Todd, talks abut producing on Broadway and the pending closing of the long-running Hairspray. He relates his own theatrical heritage — his grandfather was a contractor who built the Mark Hellinger Theatre, among many others, and his father was a playwright — and how he began his own theatrical career as a hobby while working at the family real estate concern."