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Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts are talking with Sunday mornings Jim Axelrod.

So I imagine the two of you get pitched all kinds of projects.

The idea of putting bug back on, like how do you sift through the number of things you could do and end up, yeah, you know what, let's do this and let's do it now?

Well, Steppenwolf was the, you know, you finally got this up and running at Steppenwolf, and so we've really just been in a fight to try to get it to Broadway since then.

Yeah, this falls in the category of something we wanted to do.

Yeah.

As opposed to somebody coming to us with a thing and asking us to do it.

Because it felt like unfinished business from pre-pandemic?

Well, it felt like there was a reason to do the the show again given the state of the world and it felt like

again we had an opportunity to do it in a larger house and we had to do an opportunity to do it with

the director whose work I really admire and Carrie. Carrie had

aged into the part. She wouldn't have been able to play it when we first met, but she's now

the age where she could play the part. And when we started at Steppenwolf, we also knew we had

in Namere Smallwood a very compelling Peter and those Mike Shannon shoes are big shoes to fill.

That was a memorable performance.

And we knew we need to come at the play in a different way.

We'd have to rethink sort of who Peter was.

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