Thursday, January 19, 2017
An Interview with Stacey Mindich
THE INTERVAL: Dear Evan Hansen is a Broadway oddity. It’s a new musical that isn’t based on any pre-existing source material. Its writers, librettist Steven Levenson and composer/lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, are young, and their resumes don’t boast a long list of Broadway credits. The cast features no stars. Any one of these things is rare; all three are an anomaly. The woman responsible for bringing Dear Evan Hansen to Broadway is lead producer Stacey Mindich, who has shepherded the show from nascent idea to fully formed production.
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I have heard such good things about Dear Evan Hansen, and can't wait for the soundtrack to come out soon. What stood out the most to me in this interview, is how insistent Stacey Mindich is that her work as a producer is art and not just business. I have always thought of producers just the ones with the money that you have to keep happy if you want the next seasons work. Hearing Mindich explain her work in term of art is incredibly creative and really outside of the norm that I thought about producers operating in. It is also really refreshing to hear from a woman in the field that has not felt lesser than any man or put down by. So often when a woman is interviewed they have something to say about an experience they had with sexism, so to have a woman say she hasn't felt that is refreshing and inspiring to know.
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