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“What [the team has] absolutely worked to capture is the fact that you can have this rage and you can have this anger, and it can be so righteous, but you can also carry with that the tenderness and the sweetness of love and compassion,” [actress Darby] Patterson said.

“This is so timely,” said the show’s director and co-writer Jessie Nelson… “It’s so urgent. It really meets the moment in our world.”

Women’s empowerment is at the heart of 1972.

“A story that echoes into our modern moment with importance and intensity.”

“If Hamilton is an Obama-era hope musical, we are a Trump-era protest musical,” said Mexodus co-creator Nygel D. Robinson. “But protest by being joyful. Protest by showing you it’s hard, but then we dance at the end.”

“What I love about [Waitress] is it takes these traditional things like motherhood and baking and says they can be as much about empowerment as anything else,” Nelson said.

Chadwick Stokes and Sybil Gallagher visited the GBH studios to discuss 1972, Stokes’ new work about abortion, bodily autonomy, and life before Roe v. Wade,