Did Skylar and Phoebe’s background on Broadway help the musical numbers gel?
SC: Skylar and Phoebe, they were both very smart, likeable, and loveable people. I think Skylar is going to do very well; he played naïve and vulnerable very, very convincingly. He made suggestions to me, and at first I was a bit shocked. I thought, “Why is this 20-year-old kid trying to tell me how to do my job?” But his suggestions were smart and funny which shocked me and after the first few times I told him, “If you’ve got any ideas, throw them my way.” You can learn something from everyone, and he’s probably young enough to be my son which taught me to listen to people who you think might not have something useful to tell you because sometimes they do. How did Jesus end up in Hamlet 2? AF: Well there’s a time machine, and Hamlet didn’t know how to work it properly, so… Wiseacre. What I mean is how did Dana Marschz get to the point where he’s not just writing Hamlet 2, but he’s also writing Jesus into the play? AF: We’d been working on this script for about six years, and we had th
