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🗓️ 20 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Last week on the show we told you about an unusual new play on Broadway called |
0:09.6 | stereophonic it is a long intimate, funny, and totally gripping show about a co-ed rock band in the 1970s |
0:19.2 | as they record an album that will turn out to be a huge hit. |
0:23.2 | Stereophonic itself has turned out to be a huge hit. |
0:26.8 | If you watch the Tony Awards the other night, you saw superstars like Alicia Keys and |
0:30.8 | Jay-Z, Daniel Radcliffe, even Hillary Clinton, who co-produced a Broadway musical |
0:35.8 | this season, but it was stereophonic, the play with a bunch of nobodies, as one cast member said during the Tony Awards, that stole the show, winning five awards. |
0:47.0 | Here is the playwright, David Agamy, accepting his award for Best Play. |
0:52.2 | This was a very hard journey to get this play up here. |
0:57.0 | Michael McNeil and Fran Offenhauser, who gave me a place to live for seven years so that I could write this play it's really hard to make a |
1:04.5 | career in the arts we need to fund the arts in America it is the hallmark of a |
1:09.5 | civilized society. When I interviewed Adjme a couple of weeks Society. |
1:15.0 | When I interviewed Agme a couple weeks ago, I asked him what it's like to be at the vortex of a huge hit. |
1:19.0 | He has been writing plays for a couple decades, |
1:22.0 | but this is his first show on Broadway. |
1:25.2 | Here's what he told us. |
1:26.2 | I feel like I've been in a car accident. |
1:27.8 | We all feel that way. |
1:28.6 | We're just totally dislocated. |
1:30.2 | It doesn't feel good. |
1:31.2 | It feels weirdly bad. |
1:33.0 | I have a little bit of a hard time believing that. |
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