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Putnam County Spelling Bee, 
Next to Normal, If/Then and 
War Paint, to name a few.
FROM ACTOR TO 
PRODUCER
Glick grew up in Lafayette, 
Indiana, where his family still 
lives. During the pandemic, 
Glick and his husband, Nick 
Coburn, and Glick’s family 
purchased and saved The 
Pink Walrus Frozen Yogurt 
shop, which they operate in 
Lafayette. While running 
businesses and addressing 
the logistics, artistic aspects, 
finances and COVID com-
pliance and safety issues of 
Broadway productions is now 
Glick’s forte, it didn’t start out 
that way in Lafayette. 
“I was a theater and music 
show choir kid,” says Glick, 
who attended Marymount 
Manhattan College with the 
intent of majoring in acting. 
“But, by junior year, I wasn’t 
feeling it anymore. The joy of 
being on stage was overshad-
owed by my interest in the 
production details.”
So, he switched majors to 
Theater Studies and focused 
on getting a career in the 
business of theater. His first 
job after graduating in 2006 
was as a talent agent. And 

then he heard about a dream 
but low-paying, internship 
working with prolifically suc-
cessful Broadway Producer 
David Stone on Wicked.
“I cashed in my bar mitz-
vah bonds so that I’d have 
enough money to pay three 
months of rent,” Glick says 
about the Manhattan apart-
ment he shared with three 
roommates.
At the end of the three-
month internship, Stone 
offered Glick a “real position” 
as Stone’s assistant where 
Glick has now worked for 
15 years building an impres-
sive producer resume of 
shows with Stone and some 
of his own with other pro-
ducers, including What the 
Constitution Means to Me.

TONY AWARD NOMINEES
While Sussman and Glick had 
both previously attended the 
Tony Awards, 2019 was the 
first time they were attending 
the Tonys as Best Play nomi-
nees for What the Constitution 
Means to Me. Glick was also 
nominated in a second pro-
ducing category for Best 
Revival of a Play for The Boys 
in the Band.
“It was amazing to be there 

for both shows, especially 
since Boys in the Band had 
already been closed for a 
year and it honored the 50th 
anniversary revival of [play-
wright] Mart Crowley, of 
blessed memory,” said Glick 
who earned his first Tony 
Award for Boys in the Band.
“You don’t produce shows 
to win awards. But just being 
nominated helped extend the 
run for What the Constitution 
Means to Me at the Broadway 
box office, and it was very 
profitable,” Glick adds. 
What the Constitution Means 
to Me had been on the nation-
al tour in Chicago when all 
shows were shut down due to 
the pandemic in March 2020. 
It resumed touring on Sept. 
30, 2021, in Minneapolis. 
Detroit’s Fisher Theatre will 
be the fourth stop for the 
three-week limited engage-
ment.

CONSTITUTIONAL 
RIGHTS
“What the Constitution Means 
to Me is a relevant piece of 
theater that will never go out 
of style. The audience will 
always have a new way of 
experiencing it depending on 
what’s happening in the world 

around us,” Sussman says. 
 “Like now with Texas and 
the abortion issues. We will 
always be fighting for our 
rights and civil liberties and 
look at how the Constitution 
protects us.”
When Glick married 
Coburn on Aug. 18, 2017, 
they had a small ceremony at 
City Hall in NYC followed by 
a fun “half-Jewish gay wed-
ding” at the Knitting Factory 
in Brooklyn where Glick’s dad 
explained the tenets of Jewish 
law to the wedding guests. 
Glick and Coburn, who is 
nondenominational, made 
their own ketubah. 
“It was very important for 
us to get that paper in a fed-
eral building and honor legal 
gender,” Glick says. 
When What the Constitution 
Means to Me officially opened 
on Broadway on April 2, 
2019, Coburn posted on 
Facebook: “What does the 
Constitution mean to me? 
Well, to start, a 5-4 Supreme 
Court ruling centered on the 
14th Amendment gave me 
the federal right to marry 
Aaron Glick.”
“The one thing we found 
with What the Constitution 

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DETAILS

What the Constitution Means to Me will 
run Dec. 14, 2021-Jan. 2, 2022, at the Fisher 
Theatre in Detroit. Tickets for What the 
Constitution Means to Me start at $25 
(includes facility and parking fees) and can 
be purchased online at ticketmaster.com, by 
phone at 800-982-2787 and in person at the 
Fisher Theatre Box Office. 

Patrons will be required to show photo iden-
tification and proof of a negative COVID test 
within 72 hours of the performance date or 
proof of full COVID-19 vaccination. Additionally, 
all patrons will be required to wear a mask 
while inside the theater, regardless of one’s 
vaccination status. For more information, visit 
www.BroadwayInDetroit.com.

PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS, 2019

What the Constitution Means to Me, a play by Heidi Schreck and starring 
Cassie Beck. 

