Broadway’s Longtime Jujamcyn Exec Jack Viertel Announces Retirement
deadline.comJack Viertel, whose 34 years with Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters included stints as both the Creative Director and, more recently, Senior Vice President, announced his retirement today, effective as of the end of 2021.In a statement, Viertel said, in part, “as the song says, the days grow short when you reach September, although I feel like I’m really only in mid-August.
Still, it was time to move along, with gratitude for everything Jujamcyn has given me.” Viertel said he is working on a new book and will continue to serve as a freelance creative consultant on other projects.See his full statement below.Viertel joined Jujamcyn in 1987, launching his career there that would include involvement in numerous award-winning and acclaimed productions, including such era-defining stagings as Into The Woods, M.
Butterfly, Angels in America, Jelly’s Last Jam and The Secret Garden. He’d also play an instrumental role in bringing to the stage six of August Wilson’s ten–play “Century Cycle”, beginning with the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Piano Lesson.“The work that Jack has created,” said Jordan Roth, Jujamcyn’s owner and president, said in a statement, “the artists he has championed, the wisdom he has shared, the way he understands and articulates the inner workings of the form, the love he has for the theatre and everyone involved in making it – all of this, all of him, has had such a deep impact on me and I know on everyone at Jujamcyn, past and present.
We are all forever grateful to him and cheering for him.”Other productions on which Viertel worked include Jerry Zaks’s production of Guys and Dolls, Grand Hotel, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Nathan Lane, Death of a Salesman starring Brian Dennehy, and
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