Carole shorenstein hays biography husband

Hays should know — she has been presenting some of those superb performances on Broadway for three decades. She has won five Tony Awards as a producer. She was born and raised in San Francisco, where her father, Walter H. Shorenstein who died on June 24 at age 95 , was becoming a major national real estate figure. It was that simple — from the album cover of My Fair Lady to singing every single part in my bedroom.

I realized at a very young age that I had no talent, which didn't stop me from performing in front of the mirror. I loved going to theatre with my parents. We always looked forward to it.

The shorenstein family

We went to the Curran Theatre, which I now own. And he was very good friends with George Steinbrenner," the owner of the New York Yankees, "and George Steinbrenner was very good friends with Jimmy Nederlander" of the Nederlander Organization, a major theatre owner, "and we all just started talking and I became partners with the Nederlanders at a very, very young age.

When it comes to theatre, she says, "I learned everything from Jimmy Nederlander. He is masterful. The first show with Hays as sole producer was the original production of Fences.

Curran theater history

I know that people have spoken about it as having the specificity of a particular culture. But I never saw it that way. I saw that that was my father, that was me — it was an American play. Looking at this past season's revival, which is co-produced by Scott Rudin and directed by Kenny Leon, she says that 23 years later, it's still "fresh, vibrant, alive, pulsating.