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Jeffrey Seller

lines on the record: 103
first: 2016-07-11
most recent: 2016-07-11
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Go. Oh, yeah. Well, of course, these bots are completely controlled by bad actors who are secondary ticket sellers. And then they take all of those tickets and then they go resell them on the secondary market. So two bad things are happening. One is that the consumer who wants to buy a ticket for the regular price can't get it because the bot bought it first. Two is now it's on the secondary market”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Let's talk about technology. Whoa, what you know what you're bringing up is something so interesting, which is that there's no question that digital media has helped us to publicize our show, to advertise our show and market our show through all of those social media avenues we've talked about. Bots are another form of digital tool, but this is a nefarious digital tool. It's using a robot to Go on to the Ticket Master website and cut the line and make the site inaccessible to the average person so that the bot can go scoop up and buy thousands of tickets in a minute. And then”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those who don't do that might have to have their liver printed out in a 3D printer. That's another topic. Let's talk about technology affecting Hamilton because one of the issues you guys have been, Lynn and you and others, you wrote a piece for The New York Times is these bots. Bots is a big deal in Silicon Valley right now. They love them. Everybody loves bots in Silicon Valley. You don't love bots so much.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From all this new technology. You can have your liver printed at some point. My liver's great. I take Bikram yog I flush it out every day.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Steven Spielberg movie. Yes, I know. But a lot of it that's coming is really interesting. And it's really scary too at the same time. But that's some years from now and we'll be dead, so that's fine. Or not. Let's talk about”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, go ahead. Do Of sex. Now, a lot of people might answer the second. Think about it. Well, I wouldn't. Okay. It's going to be, you know, it's really an interesting question because it's getting pretty good. Because there's a new thing called haptic touch. Do you know about that? No, of course I don't know about that. It's developing it at places like MIT, but it pushes back at you?”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's kind of like can I be crass? Yeah, go ahead. Do you want to have sex or do you want to have a virtual reality experience of sex? No.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want you to work hard to buy a ticket and come to my theater in Chicago. Or come to my theater in San Francisco or Seattle or Portland, or any theater I'm going to go to and interact with the show in a live way. In a live way. That is going to give you an experience that you can't have in any other way.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, now they do. They do, actually. So in terms of where this show is going in terms of science, so you don't want to put it, you don't want to stream it. You never wanted to stream it. You never wanted to do. Absolutely not.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Perhaps that's in New York, but otherwise they use it very creatively. They can be creative with it. It's a really interesting more than you think. So I think the problem is anyone over 16 really doesn't get it.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, because we are helping her to stay innocent. Innocent and not be exposed to some of the bad stuff that a lot of teenage girls are exposed to. That's true.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My kids are really on the cusp because we didn't allow our kids to have phones for a long time. Our daughter's 13. She now has a phone, but we have the Norton family utility, so she can't even use Safari. She can only use those apps that we need. What are we doing?”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you're yourself. I don't know if we're using Snapchat. I know we're using Twitter and Facebook and all that stuff. I don't use it. All I do is Instagram, which is a nice way for me to share pictures of my family and myself with my friends.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. I advise against it. And then this Timeswriter said, Oh, no, Snapchat's good for our generation. It's a good one. First of all, I don't need anybody to see my face at every minute of the day. You know what I mean?”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Use Snapchat? I don't use Snapchat because I heard dirty. And I had a 13-year-old daughter who we wouldn't allow Fnapchat on her phone. And then I read this article. I have 14.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of the stuff we started by design and I was smart enough to hire our young twenty five year old who understand social media and understands its effect on young people who would come into my office every day and pitch me five ideas. Granted, I would always reject three of them, but two of them I'd say go with that And we found that there is a great audience who wants to take in and interact with the show and with the actors in that kind of way and that just feeds their enthusiasm for the show.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which works perfectly. And you use it a lot in social media. Do you consider that a big part of the marketing of the show? Because all your stars are active. They do a lot on, you're always on Snapchat or viral videos, or do they do that themselves or is that part of your planning? Because I literally see them and they're using it beautifully.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talk about how you think about getting it out. I want my advertising to give you a feeling. I don't want to tell you what the show is. An advertising image can't do that. Advertising is too fleeting. My opportunity to affect you is a split second opportunity. So all I'm trying to do is see if I can capture something visually for you that might give you some feeling. And I think that's what we tried to capture with the Hamilton artwork that uses this very lush, beautiful gold. Which is money. Right, right, which is wealth. Which is beauty, it's gold, and And then of course it has the American star which has the patriotism And then it has the swagger of that man on the top of the star who represents the rebel. Who founds our country?”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then this show comes around and it has all of those things. But because it is about perhaps the founding fathers, because it is about our American Revolution, because it is about Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison. Right. So we give them comfort. It's about those four white guys, and then we turn everything upside down on its head. Who plays them, how they express themselves, and then audiences discover that they love who plays them and they love how these men express themselves in this unique musical way.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Once again, I mentioned in that article that I thought that the label of hip-hop and Latino pushed against some of the success we might have had to a greater degree within the heights. I mean, in the heights still was a big successful show. It won the 20 for Best Musical. It ran for three years. It had a three-year tour. It was a very successful show. But I did believe that there was a certain degree of racism and a certain degree of fear of hip-hop that made people not want to go see in the heights.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, what I was speaking about in that article was that the audience for rent was largely young. When we started off on Broadway because of the rave reviews and all of that, the more traditional Broadway audience absolutely came to the show, but they didn't quite get it. And I don't think that they enjoyed it. And I think that there was an inverse relationship to age and enjoyment of that show, which was as you got older, you enjoyed it less. And that's just what that show was because of its unique nature in telling the stories of young 20 something New Yorkers living out their own LaboM story”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think that this show represents the best values and the best impulses of this great country. And I think that I know for me, this show taps into a sense of patriotism. I feel for my country that heretofore I have never felt in my whole life as a fifty one-year-old man who was born in the Johnson administration. Grew up through Vietnam Watergate the impeachment of Nixon, the oil crisis, and I'm from Detroit, so Detroit was always going down. There always seemed like there was never any good news there. And it just felt to me like, it feels to me like Hamilton is tapping into what's great about our country. And its values are those that we can all ascribe to, whether we are men or women or black or white or brown or Democrat or Republican or old or young.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, first of all, I like to preface this. I must preface this by saying I can give you a hypothesis that is no better than anybody else's. I have worked hard on Hamilton for the last six years like I worked hard on every single musical I've ever done. I did not predict that it would become this kind of a phenomenon. I knew it was good and I knew it would be successful. I didn't know that it would go this far, this fast. And I am asking myself that question all the time. What is it about this show right now that's making it strike a chord for so, so, so many people? Of who we can be as a country, as citizens, and as people.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're describing in Minnesota is horrific. It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. Like from super sad true love story, which I read a few years ago, which was the black mirror or something, dystopian view of the future.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he creates this story in such a way that it becomes the biggest hit in Broadway history. No virtual reality. There's no high tech, they're no fancy sets It's the storytelling baby. And all I want to know is what's the story?”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, let's look at Hamilton. Lynn gets this crazy idea that I want to make a hip hop retelling of the story of the American founder Alexander Hamilton. He's not one of the A list founding fathers.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, actually, you do. Yeah, I know, but they're on a screen. I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight against it. There's no Hamilton. I'm going to become a Crome Yoga enthusiast. Want to go into that hot Godsen room. On my left. Right. It's just pleasure in that, the struggle or the joy on either side. So you don't envision adding anything to theatrical productions you do, like the idea is there's going to be a VR show on Broadway”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With all the other cyclers going through the same Challenges I'm going through going through the struggle. Well, I do. Yeah, I know, but they're on a screen. Yeah, well, I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight against it. So there's no Hamilton. I'm going to make a yoga enthusiast. I don't want to do beakram in my bedroom by myself. I want to go into that hot, God-forsaken room and at least know there is someone struggling on my right and on my left.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have an iPhone. And I kind of just threw it in the garbage. I'm not interested in VR personally yet. I don't need a virtual experience. I just want to have an experience. Experience.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just some sort of a VR thing. I got that little cardboard box in the New York Times one Sunday. And I was like, how do you use this? You don't have the right phone.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You betcha. Yeah, that's who it was. Think what's great about Broadway is that it's eclectic and there's always going to be something for everybody. So you might have a spectacle at one end of the street and then you might have a three-character musical that explores the deepest, darkest secrets in an American family at the other end of the street.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I saw the original one. It was pretty good. It was Gwen Verden, I think. Is that right? You betcha. Yeah, that's who it was. So do you see that as more of a trend or a spectacle also there? Is there like a range of experience in live theater?”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a lot of AR stuff going on, you know, shortly after rent, Chicago came back on a revival, and Chicago, when it opened in the 70s, was not that big a hit. But the revival through. Fantastic dancing, really sexy women and men, and a completely stripped-down production winds up running for 20 years because people are actually interested in”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. He went drastically in the other direction. He cut back all of that technical stuff and went straight into story, character, music.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Technical and complicated When I collaborated with Jonathan, he used to say to me back in the mid nineties That's not our music those aren't our stories those aren't our characters And this is when we're in my late 20s, and Jonathan is in his early 30s. What did Rent do? It brought our, you know, I was 31 years old. It brought The characters that meant something to me, it brought young New Yorkers who were striving to figure out what they were going to do with their lives.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Should be a different experience. Theater has to change because we change. And if you look at what Rent did in 1996, Rent changed theater. In 1996, Broadway was populated by the British pop musical.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then I wrote a play. Then I was in a lot of plays, and then I started going to the theater when I was 13 at the Fisher Theater in Detroit and saw virtually every single national tour that came in, beginning with Shenandoah and then very quickly after Pippin and then a chorus line and then Annie and the magic show.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. Well, I was transformed by many things. I was transformed by the Purim play I was in in the fourth grade, which of course is the famous story of Queen Esther. But in my temple, they juxtaposed the story of Queen Esther to South Pacific and Gilbert and Sullivan. You should do it again. I'm telling you, one musical, I was in that very first show. World of exclamation. Yeah, it was Porum, but it was Rogers. I was introduced to Rogers and Hammerstein. I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair. And Gilbert and Sullivan. And we sailed the ocean blue and our saucy ship's a beauty.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Basically, I never stopped. What was the show you saw? I forgot the times article was terrific about you. It was a show that you had. And I know exactly the feeling when I was young and went to a show. It changed. It was transformative.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was always in the theater. Right. I started doing theater in the fourth grade, and basically I never stopped. What was the show you?”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Indeed. To hurt I am hopeful that all of these other products, tools, avenues are going to result in young people wanting to go to a live concert, wanting to go to a live theatrical event, wanting to go to a museum. And I think if you look across all of those mediums, rock and roll concerts are doing very well. The theatre's doing very well, the Museum of Modern Art has had its biggest crowds ever over the last three or four years.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And seeing the play live. And do you feel like people grown? I want to get to that idea of using technology because you guys have used it quite well. And at the same time, you've been plagued by some of the abilities of bots and other things to hurt you. But the experience of live theater, do you imagine we're creating a group of people, younger people especially, who don't appreciate that when they're all in these digital spaces? And as we add VR and other and AR and everything else to it, it creates a different kind of customer or audience.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the greatest thing is that we can use digital communication to help sell our tickets. Right. To help get our word out, but there's nothing about that digital. World that's going to replace the experience of going to the theater and seeing the play live.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that the live experience, experiencing art live, experiencing it with friends, with family, with people we love is so rewarding an experience that people are searching it out amidst the digital age in which our faces are in our phones. Seemingly every other hour of the day.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I did rent in nineteen ninety six, somewhere between eight and nine million people went to a Broadway show. So our Broadway attendance is up almost 50% in 20 years.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's definitely possible, in part by Hamilton, but of those third 13 million tickets, only a little bit over half a million of them came to Hamilton. Right, right. So Hamilton is only part of a larger fabric.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I have been completely energized and buoyed over the last five years in watching how in live theater I think we're experiencing a new golden age. Broadway attendance was over thirteen million people this past season. When I did rent in 19”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now, my only plan is to exploit this show in its live state in as many places as I can because that is the... True experience”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is not a movie. That is incorrect. Okay. What I wanted to do before the original Broadway cast left was recorded for posterity. So with nine cameras and an extraordinary film cruel provided by radical media, we recorded the show last week, or I should say we taped the show last week, so that we have a record of this extraordinary moment in time.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think these are artists who look forward to expressing themselves in different ways and moving on with their own careers. And I encourage that and I nurture that. And at the same time, we have extraordinary artists who are ready to go into Broadway and we're going into rehearsal on August 1st with our Chicago company that starts previews there in late September, September 27th. So that'll be our second Hamilton company. And then we'll open our third Hamilton company in San Francisco in March. And then we'll open our fourth Hamilton Company in London in the Victoria Palace Theater in October of 17.”
2016-07-11 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: "Hamilton" producer Jeffrey Seller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT