Regarding: He is categorizing the new work as a “choreopoem,” after Ntozake Shange’s seminal “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,”
There are many sides to this idea, like there are many wonderful people on both sides since Charlottesville, the poor oppressor as well as the mean oppressed, who bully the oppressors by falling human rights claims! The wonderful Jim Burns, who died way too young, had co-written the book of a musical with me from the white rich powerful fully-able producers perspective on dealing with being bullied by powerless complainers from protected classes. (if you are a white female whose spouse qualifies, then we'll look the other way and you're welcome in, too). We called it "Your Arms too Short To Fight My Rich White Liberal Image."
@Freddie You're a writer?
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@Erich Richter, in New York anyway, I live by the Isaac B. Singer advice Larry Gelbart famously passed on to struggling writers,"Stop struggling and write." Then I hope it doesn't get sabotaged by some lawyer.
Outside NYC, I have no idea what makes some theater happen to click on and put on licensed work, or how to make that happen - just happy when they do. These days, I have no idea how younger writers get their whole idea out so well and fully in 70 minutes, which so many people seem to want. I rarely can make it to the end of the comment box without having to go back and delete. (See what I mean - you asked a three-word question.) The licensor got a 100-minute show down to 55 minutes for a family version, and it actually works, though not for NY; never could have done it myself.
The Gelbart quote is at https://timetowrite.blogs.com/weblog/2009/09/larry-gelbarts-advice-to-struggling-writers.html