00:00Once, but once you have it, you just have to make room for it.
00:14I saw you once, Matti Schwartz.
00:16Valentina, how are you?
00:18Fine. The show is amazing, it's really beautiful, so...
00:21Thank you.
00:21You said that you love this cast because these actors have all poetry inside them.
00:27Sure.
00:28I want to know how do you nurture your poetry?
00:31First by recognizing it and knowing that it exists, you know, so that's the first step.
00:37I think that certain people, it's an elusive thing.
00:42I think that certain people, you know, miss out on it.
00:49And I think that once you have it, you just have to make room for it.
00:54So, nurturing it by letting people be playful and trusting their instincts
01:01and letting them sometimes change the script and say things in their own words if needed.
01:08But also just, you know, making room for grace.
01:11Judith says that she wants to be a writer who reminds others that this moment exists.
01:19And she's referring to moments that other people could consider boring.
01:24And I think that it's what you're doing in this show because you transform everyday life in something amazing, beautiful.
01:34Was it something that you wanted to pursue with this show?
01:40So, Judith is actually quoting Anaïs Nin, which is from a beautiful quote of Anaïs Nin and from her diaries.
01:50And I think Anaïs Nin definitely had an inclination to search for the marvelous, you know, which our show is
02:00speaking about too.
02:01And Maddy, as a teenager, is drawn to do.
02:09And all of us, I think, who are looking for that, you know, feeling that there is more to life.
02:19But I think that there is a sense, like you're saying, that once you do submit yourself to the present
02:27moment
02:28and allow yourself to see the beauty of life in its most fragile and intimate way,
02:36you can find the marvelous in those moments too.
02:41So I think it's about the tension between those two things, you know, sometimes like how much we search for
02:50more
02:50and how much we learn to tune ourself to, you know, the present.
02:56We have to talk about those beautiful musical numbers.
03:00They are spectacular.
03:02Thank you.
03:03How did you work on that?
03:04Yes.
03:05Thank you so much.
03:07Yeah, I mean, that's just, you know, it's just my favorite thing to do, one of them.
03:12So it always finds its way in to everything I do.
03:17But in this one, it was especially important.
03:22And when I learned about Baltimore and did my research, I realized how little we know about the fact that
03:29that city had such a rich culture musically.
03:31You know, I see your guitars in the back, so you could probably appreciate it.
03:35That Penn Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue had some of the greatest clubs and the most wonderful musicians pass there and play.
03:45And I wanted to capture what I think it felt, you know, and those numbers in the club do that.
03:57And then of course, there's numbers that are, you know, just more part of dream sequences.
04:03So we kind of, it's a bit of a kaleidoscope of tonally shifting numbers, but it's a language for me,
04:13you know, it's just like, it's just something that I think you can convey in movement things you can't say
04:21in words.
04:22Amazing. The show is really beautiful. Really. Thank you so much.
04:25Thank you so much.
04:27Thank you so much.
04:27Grazie a tutti
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