Sonia Friedman
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My Castaway this week is the theatre producer, Sonia Friedman. Her combined attributes of artistic flair and commercial notes have taken her to the very top. She currently has eight shows running in the West End and will shortly have a total of four on Broadway. What's striking in our box set TV centred culture is her consistent ability to get stars on stage and bums on theatre seats. The story of how she got to the top has all the makings of a dripping three-act drama itself. It includes an eminent violinist father who abandoned the family as she was born,. A brilliant concert pianist mother struggling to bring up her four kids alone, and an unhappy adolescent, marked by
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