Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Richard Jay-Alexander, Renowned Producer and Director
About Harvey's guest:
Today’s guest, Richard Jay-Alexander, is an internationally renowned producer and director of some of the greatest Broadway shows, musical theatre productions, and concert tours of our generation.
He’s been instrumental in bringing some of the most wonderful Broadway shows to audiences throughout North America, including “Les Miz”, “Miss Saigon”, “Oliver”, “Song and Dance”, and “Amadeus”, to name only a few.
He’s worked with some of the greatest music artists of all time, including Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Johnny Mathis, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, Ricky Martin, Betty Buckley, Donna McKechnie and dozens more, on their concerts, TV specials and albums.
His career has taken him to the greatest performance venues in the world – everywhere from the Royal Albert Hall and Festival Hall in London, and the biggest arenas in the world, to the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera House, The Hollywood Bowl, and the big theatres in Las Vegas.
As a writer, he’s contributed lyrics to projects for Disney, he’s written the liner notes for the albums of many classic musicals, and his interviews with dozens of legendary stars for Broadwayworld.com are pure magic. He’s directed the Chaplin Awards for Film at Lincoln Center, honouring iconic stars like Robert Redford, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren.
He’s produced Grammy-nominated recordings and cast albums. And in addition to all of his professional activities, he is one of the most passionate and dedicated philanthropists in the entertainment world In fact, he’s absolutely ferocious about giving back. He’s a long time Board member of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and has directed many benefit shows, not only for that organization, but for many other causes that are near and dear to his heart, including animal welfare, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Actor's Fund, the National Asian Artists Project, Broadway Dreams, and Hollywood's Motion Picture and Television Fund.
He’s also very active in teaching and mentoring young talent, and he’s been the camp director of Kristin Chenoweth's Broadway Bootcamp.
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