“‘Woodstock’ wouldn’t have been written if I had been there, because those events are full of the back room, full of sibling rivalries. There are pockets of cooperation, but everyone’s desperate to win. It’s not a sports event, but there is that element of it, and it accelerates up to opening night, and it translates to a lot of hideous effort. People will be playing beautiful at rehearsals, but by the time they get to opening night, their performances are grotesque with effort. It’s like competitive children at those events. From the audience, they don’t see it, but you see it backstage. I
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