00:00I was very glad to hear that you included some of the film's most iconic lines in the book.
00:05Did you have a list of the ones that were most important to you?
00:08When you work in a musical, again, you have, you know, director, a band, composers, producer,
00:15you know, yourselves, and along the way, everyone has their own threshold of what they think is like,
00:20well, this one's iconic.
00:21So there was always great debate about what, and things have gone in and out,
00:25or we've moved things around.
00:26But I think that the question I do get asked most is,
00:31do you have the shirtless sax player, the greased-up sax player?
00:41There's certainly some fan service, but I think it's really just to honor the film.
00:49But I don't think we're doing it in a way that feels like,
00:54oh, and we'll just slap that on, too.
00:56It, you know, I mean, the sax player is what makes it iconic,
00:59but hopefully we do a little twist for each thing so it feels,
01:02it feels sort of particular to this production.
01:04Right.
01:05I mean, you have the sax man, you mentioned you have the Rob Lowe poster.
01:09That's right.
01:09You know, why were those Easter eggs so important to include, I guess?
01:14I think some of those are just guideposts for fans, certainly.
01:18And at some point, you have this property, this intellectual property that you're adapting that,
01:24you know, you want to take liberties with and expand, but you also want to,
01:29I mean, if I'm a fan of the movie, I want to know that I'm in good hands and with
01:33people that understand it.
01:34And if you understand it, you understand you have to have the sax player.
01:36You understand that you have to have Rob Lowe, and we can all take that farther.
01:40We tried to expand and stay loyal where it felt like it mattered.
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