Jeanine Tesori

"That's not good enough at the moment.

Can you give me something else?" [laughs] Um, but you know, I ended up having to talk to the, the lovely composer of that show, Jeanine Tesori, and be like, "I can't do this."

Yeah.

"Can you, can you change this for me?"

was so honored to be like a tiny part of it on their artist board.

First under Janine Tesori and then under Michael Friedman.

And the folks that I did the artist board with, like our job was we would have these kind of like round table discussions about things going on.

And we were sort of part of like the building in that way.

Performances of gender on stage allow us to think about, imagine, and embody performances of gender elsewhere.

As prolific composer Janine Tesori said in 2015 when she won her first Tony Award for Fun Home, for girls, you have to see it to be it.

A feminist analysis is a framework for interpretation and for life, opening conversations beyond the theater.

Lovely.

A show in 1999, the show was called Violet.

It's a Janine Tesori musical.

It's lesser well-known except Sutton Foster, if anybody is familiar with her, did a revival of it on Broadway a couple of years ago.

She was not involved, but that's how people know Violet.