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Sunday morning's Mo Rocca talks with Stephen Schwartz, The Wizard of Musicals.

Why does the Oz story mean so much to so many people?

I mean, I can only speak for myself about why the ahs story is so meaningful.

I think it's our classic American myth, you know, the story of speaking truth to power,

and having brains and heart and courage when you don't think you do,

and the least of us being able to overcome the most powerful wickedness, etc.

I mean, that's, it's all the stuff of myth. It's just very cleverly American, thanks to L. Frank Baum.

You know, I try to find what sounds like the character, what feels like, you know, if I just heard the music, if I didn't speak English, what would that be telling me?

So when I was first starting to work on Wicked,

since we're talking about Wicked,

and I was thinking about Elphaba and like the character

of the Wicked Witch and knowing that at some point

she was gonna come into her power,

what sounds like power? And I came up with this.

Because that just felt like power to me, like coming up,

I still feel so I play those chords,

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