Can you say a little about the new Seussical tour?
LA: Y’know, I sort of can’t because we haven’t even gone into production with it yet, and we’re gonna be having a creative workshop for the choreographer and director in a few weeks. I’ll know more about it then. I don’t want to talk too much about it now. I can tell you it’s an entirely new production. And it’ll be slightly refocused. Some of the writing is gonna be what it was on Broadway, with some tightenings and refocusings. No new songs. We have to work with the director [Christopher Ashley] and choreographer [Patti Colombo] to see what they need. Basically, the show we wrote is the show that’s going out on the road because it’s a beautiful show and it just needs a second airing. PBOL: Was the turbulent Broadway production of Seussical painful? LA: It’s not painful at all, it’s just not positive. It was a negative experience in many ways although there was a lot of great stuff about the experience as well: Writing it was great, doing the workshops with our actors, and the cast wa
