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| Posted by: Delvino 01:05 pm EDT 09/03/24 | |
| In reply to: re: WICKED Sunday night - Delvino 12:26 pm EDT 09/03/24 | |
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| “Some of it does reflect our goals because in the very beginning Stephen Schwartz and I were so inspired by by Gregory Maguire’s premise that somebody could be painted as a villain, that that person was really completely misunderstood. That premise had such power for Stephen and me. Gregory’s book was always political in nature. It’s a political book. We were never unaware that it had within it the power to make a political statement. But I don’t think we leaned into that." And, in a Denver interview: "Politics is very much embedded in the story. The whole story is about a political leader who is unmasked as a fraud. Just like in our world, there is prejudice, there is darkness, there are the forces of evil. I don’t want to dictate what people should take away from it, but there is the whole idea of scapegoating people because they are different or because their message is unpopular, because they are saying what people don’t want to hear. The idea of making that person into an evil figure is so relevant to our lives." 5/29/24 Denver Center for the Performing Arts newsletter |
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| Link | https://culturalattache.co/2018/06/06/wicked-writer-winnie-holzmans-funny-response-actors-fund/ |
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