STAGE TUBE: Jordan Roth, Ken Davenport, et al. Speak at TEDxBroadway

The Vision: 20 years ago, in January of 1992, Broadway was a different place: Times Square and the environs were dangerous and down at the heels, the World Wide Web had just launched, and the Soviet Union had come to an end just a month before. So much has changed on Broadway in that time that it begs the question "What will Broadway be like 20 years from now?" But there's an even better, more important question than that: "What's the best that Broadway can be 20 years from now?" And that's the question TEDxBroadway attempts to answer.

In the videos below, industry experts including Jordan Roth, Ken Davenport, and more address those very topics. Click below to check out what they had to say.

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