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On Friday, the impossible happens.
The shutdown is keeping stages dark, but your box screen can still shine like a lit-up marquee.
Never before has a musical been shaped by so many hands that didnt originally sign a contract.
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According to Joe Benincasa of the Actors Fund, it was a matter of phone calls.
According to Benincasa, Nobile called Tom Schumacher, the president of Disney Theatricals, over Thanksgiving.
Tom said, Thats a good idea.
I think Disney can free up the rights … lets venture to do it.
Ill dump the path.
Last year, they averaged about 10,000 donors.
This year they are clearing 60,000.
On the following Monday, Disneys representative on the Actors Fund board called Benincasathe turn-around was that quick.
(Both are also listed as producers.)
Nobile texted them the night before Thanksgiving, says Breslin.
Id had some Champagne, of course.
One begins to see where Disney would not…have necessarily used the same methods.
The pair had one week to write the treatment, then another to write the libretto.
Tituss was the dream, says Foley.
And we found out about him, I suppose fairly quickly in the process.
And then it was just a conversation about: How tongue in cheek can we be?
How manyInheritancejokes can there be?
So I feel very taken care of on all fronts, says Scott.
Could this new musical form, which started as a placeholder, become a placetaker?
You rethink your idea 400 times before actually getting in the room.
And, of course, theres the fact that its work, work at last.
Now its providing the first big theatrical event of the next decade.
Like, Im happy that its ending off with something sweet.
You know what I mean?
