Those are all good questions, and ones I can't speak to, as I don't know the show, aside from the basics (aside from saying it seems to be a human interest show, so it displays the most interesting things about these humans).
Your detailed questions strike me as being more about why the writers chose this story for their play, whereas the original framing read more as a criticism of the character and/or her song as being self-obsessed and self-aggrandizing, which I felt
was unfair.
I've only seen that song at the Drama Desks, and I was surprised by how powerful it was. When it was over, one of my colleagues was wiping tears from her eyee, and I was basically a puddle in my seat. In and of itself, the song celebrates human struggle and achievement. It celebrates the best of what we can do as people, and my sense of the show is that it aims to show something about the good of people, to balance the evil that was on display in New York and D.C.
Which isn't enough of a dramatic event, but clearly it resonates for a lot of people. :) |
