Meet Jordan Roth, who just did a live art installation at the Louvre: the Tony Award-winning Broadway producer was behind Hadestown and Kinky Boots, and is the son of billionaire realtor Steven Roth
Roth’s 2012 wedding to author Richie Jackson was attended by Donald Trump and Melissa Etheridge; off-Broadway, Roth serves on the board of multiple foundations
Edgy Broadway producer Jordan Roth has once again redefined creative boundaries with Radical Acts of Unrelenting Beauty, a trio of groundbreaking live performances held at the Louvre on July 10.
The performances were part of La Nuit de la Mode, an evening celebrating the Louvre’s first-ever major exhibition of haute couture. Collaborating with president of the Louvre Laurence des Cars, Roth transformed the iconic museum into a living canvas, with elements of the space and its art projected onto various couture pieces. The moment wove fashion, movement and storytelling into a singular immersive experience.
The work was structured as three vivid tableaux: Red, Wings and Pyramid. Red was an evolving projection of colour and movement onto John Galliano’s iconic Dior empress gown, while Wings featured projections of 49 images of wings from the Louvre’s collections, from The Winged Victory of Samothrace sculpture, to Raphael’s painting of Saint Michael. Pyramid referenced the changing sky above I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid structure and 25 paintings in the Louvre’s collections. “From fabric to pyramid, dress to architecture, the boundaries between the exterior and interior world collapse,” Roth wrote on his Instagram of the final piece in the tableau.
Here’s everything you need to know about Jordan Roth.
He’s a seven-time Tony Award winner
As a producer, Roth has won a total of seven Tony Awards for shows including Hadestown, Kinky Boots, Moulin Rouge: The Musical!, Angels in America and Clybourne Park. He is also the president and majority owner of Jujamcyn Theaters, a major Broadway group overseeing five prestigious venues in New York City.
In 2001, Roth revived the 1975 Broadway hit The Rocky Horror Show, for which he and the cast earned four Tony Award nominations. He also produced The Donkey Show, an interactive disco-themed adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that combined theatre and nightlife and ran off-Broadway and internationally for six years.