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Thank you indeed.

I'm delighted to know that the work is being done at the Public Theater.

So thank you very much.

What do you think? Is Susan Glaspell a classic? Why or why not? Why do you think so?

But in there, you'll hear an amazing story that this is why you need to hear it.

How Riggs, when they were doing it at the Public Theater, when they were at the Public Theater, They were just doing the first few shows and Riggs brought Buster on.

And in the documentary, Lynn says, Buster was sitting in front of me with his big chain and he's sitting there and I can hear him.

And if Buster didn't like it, it was a flop and I wasn't doing it.

Yeah.

What's interesting also is that at this point, George C. Wolfe is the artistic director at New York Shakespearean Festival and the Public Theater.

And so Bringing the Noise starts out off-Broadway at the Public Theater.

It also feels, and I could totally be wrong about this, but it feels like this show was also the moment when the Public Theater found its kind of iconic place.

um type and font um that's like very energetic and rhythmic uh paula sure sure sure paula sure i think is the

the famous i watched a not netflix documentary about her

anyway but she she kind of created the type for the public theater and and if you look at it i think bringing the noise bringing the funk is kind of the beginning of that anyway um It starts out there and then transfers to Broadway pretty quickly after.

Now, we have already discussed this whole phenomenon during our Big episode earlier this year, where Big the musical was going to open and thought it was going to pretty much have the season all to itself.

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but it was done at the Public Theater by the lovely Joe Papp, who was very warm and welcoming to me.

The playwright, Michael Weller, showed Joe Papp my plays, and he was very, uh, very, very, uh, warm about them.

My father said about the really obscene one, he said, "Well, it's beyond my ken." [laughs] In other words, "I don't quite get this play."

I did quite well.

The Goodman Theater, the Public Theater, many theaters all over.

Off-Broadway, never got to Broadway.

Although I wanted to.

You can't possibly know in four minutes that you're going to make the same kind of impact in Lebowski.

No, the truth of the matter is I had done a play called La Puta Vida, where I played a character called Chino, similar, by Ronaldo Provad, at the Public Theater.

And they were fascinated, Joel was, with that character.

And he said, we want you to do something like that.

In the musical, Washington has an Avuncular Gravitas, acting as a mentor to Hamilton, originally played by Miranda.

For almost two years, including the show's off-Broadway run in 2015 at the Public Theater, Jackson's warm tenor carried some of the musical's most famous melodies on numbers like One Last Time.

Now, nearly a decade later, he has returned to the role for 16 weeks on Broadway through January 3rd.

The show was hugely impactful for my career, said Jackson, who has had roles in Hell's Kitchen, a Broadway show inspired by the singer-songwriter Alicia Keys.