Donald Trump - One Time Broadway Producer

Paris Is Out!

At 23, The Donald gave it his best shot.

In 1970 he met with Broadway producer David Black and fronted half of the costs to get Paris Is Out! onto Broadway. The Richard Seff play had an off-Broadway run in Paramus, NJ and for a mere S70,000 the Donald - as co-producer - planted his name up on Broadway.

As reported in the NY Times:

“Paris Is Out!,” which starred Sam Levene, a veteran film and stage actor, alongside Ms. Picon, had its admirers during an earlier production in Paramus, N.J. But the producers were so worried about critical reaction that they held no press performances, and with good reason — the critics were unimpressed. In The New York Times, Clive Barnes wrote, “I pitied it more than I disliked it,” but called it “a bad play.”

To be fair, the play did get some positive reviews.

Paris Is Out! closed after 96 performances. Any chance of a revival? With the casting of Whoopie Goldberg and Richard Dreyfuss?