Before he was a real estate developer President Trump was a Broadway producer.

"He created himself as this New York character, a character so long identified with New York. And I think he realized instinctively that what's also identified with New York is Broadway. And if I want to build my brand up and he's all about building up the brand about his name, I want to be seen to be involved in something that makes New York unique. And that's Broadway," said WOR Radio Host Michael Riedel.

At 23, fresh out of Wharton business school, a young Donald Trump signed on to be a producer of the play "Paris Is Out!" by Richard Seff.

Trump's ex-wife Marla Maples was also in the Broadway show Will Roger's Follies.

"Trump apparently was at the show fairly regularly. And I did see him there for Marla's opening," said Riedel. During Will Roger's Follies producer Pierre Cossette told New York Magazine that he was developing a musical based on Trump's life. Like most shows it never ended up coming to fruition. In 2005 there was discussion of adapting Trump's reality show "The Apprentice" for the stage. It never happened, but in 2010 a Broadway themed episode of the show did.

During his 2016 presidential campaign many were perplexed by his choice of walk out music that he used at rallies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

"Trump has that for better or for worse. He certainly has a kind of populist popular appeal. The elites don't like him, you know, the New York Times is never going to like Donald Trump. The mainstream media is never going to like Donald Trump, but the regular people like Donald Trump. And so I think in a way he would see in Andrew Lloyd Weber, someone who the elites, you know, the New York Times, the elite critics have always turned their noses up at, but the public embraces Andrew Lloyd Weber to the point where he's been the most successful composer in the history of the world theater. So I think Trump would probably identify with the, the populism that Andrew Lloyd Webber has, seems to be able to reach in his, in his musicals. Now whether Andrew Lloyd Weber wants to be identified with Trump, that's a question you'd have to ask Andrew, although he does live in Trump tower," Riedel said.

With the election just one day away, many in the theater community are left wondering if President Trump gets reelected, whether the theater community will get the stimulus package that is so desperately needed for the industry to survive.

"I think more of a danger to the theater community and to the arts are those Republicans in the Senate who seemed to have no feel or understanding or love for the arts and who don't understand the importance of the arts to the economies of cities. Trump, I think does get that. I don't see Trump turning his back on the theater in New York City. I could be wrong, but I think he could surprise you on that front," Riedel concluded.

Only time will tell what the future holds for President Trump and his relationship with Broadway.