Her latest West End show hasn’t even opened yet but Sonia Friedman is already back in the rehearsal room for the one that comes next. Mind you, this is par for the course for this wildly successful British producer with homes in east London and Manhattan. As her eldest sister, Maria, once said of her: “She can hold ten worlds in her head.”
We meet at a theatre in west London, where that day’s world has been Fangirls, a smash-hit musical in its native Australia. She is not long back from Stratford-upon-Avon, where her playwright boyfriend, Joe Murphy, 25 years her junior, has just opened a show for the RSC, Kyoto.
Just before that she was in New York, picking up nine Tony
