But that being said, absolutely there are stories that women want to hear about themselves. They want those stories. Sometimes you don't realize you're starving for something until you've had a taste of it. A story where the women are not incidental, but they are the story. |
He had this feeling, which turned out to be true, that he and I might connect, and we really connected big-time, |
His focus was different. He was, actually, writing a novel. We were trying to delight an audience, and to pull an audience along through a complicated tale. |
I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways, |
It's not old-fashioned in the sense that it explores a friendship between two women who really grow and mature during the course of the show and are very interesting people. I'm not sure there are other musicals that do that. |
There is something at the heart of 'The Wizard of Oz' that is about feminine empowerment. I never set out to do that as a goal - write a musical about feminine empowerment. But the wizard, the male character, is a charlatan and a fraud. The witches have real power. |