Last year, when we opened the Notebook musical on Broadway, we didn’t get the critical reception we’d wanted, and isn’t it embarrassing to admit you want to be liked, but don’t we all? But it …
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tour de force
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goodbye, hello
The Notebook closed on Broadway last weekend, after a ten month run, after a 7 year birth. There’s things we tell ourselves, and the things people tell us, to make us all feel better, this …
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first preview
It was your special, sacred thing, an inside joke, a secret, your baby, the inner folds of your soul, and now it’s for everyone. Everyone has snacks to eat and must eat them one at a …
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picking nits
When the Notebook was in rehearsal in Chicago fall of 2022 I wasn’t able to access my full writer brain or be fully present with the actors because SOMEONE (BOBBIE, AHEM) was sucking all of …
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I Care
I have never even pretended like I’m the kind of person who does not care about or read reviews of their work. Years ago I had a residency at the O’Neill theater conference, where a …
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this is for you
Dear Girl who sat across the aisle from me at the Notebook preview last night, who spent act one sobbing, then laughing, then sobbing, chugging red wine, shouting YES at moments you knew, whispering secrets …
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weather, or not
Here’s this amazing press photo of the Notebook’s core creative time, also taken by Joe Mazza. As soon as we saw this shot, we all decided that we looked exactly like a local news team. …
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peas carrots watermelon
In theaters all across America, or perhaps the world? and throughout all of time? Actors have been clustered together as scenery, next to fake rocks or lamps, having fake conversations with each other while a …
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words do not begin
We still have a lot to do a fix and learn, but so far, the Notebook is….a dream come true? A heart’s cry? Grad school and life school, a permanent song in my head. Ingrid …
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SAVE THE DATE
Ingrid and I either wrote a musical together, or are getting married, or both? Come see us in Chicago September 6-Oct 16 to find out which (OR BOTH.) Creating something as big as a musical …