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“WILD” is, Muñoz said, a “beautiful, magical, and vital show…that needs to be told.” He plays a conservative single dad who is stuck in his ways. “He’s a very challenging character, and I have to commit to ideas and things that are, very much at my core, the opposite of who I am,” Muñoz said. “It’s really an eye-opening exploration for me.”

When V was approached by Tony Award-winning Broadway star Idina Menzel about the possibility of collaborating with hit-making pop songwriter Justin Tranter on a new musical project, she leapt at the chance. “I was like, ‘The only thing I want to write about right now is climate change.’ Because really what else should we be thinking about?”

White’s script weaves the language of Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy together with contemporary comments…to call out how a story can shift depending on the teller.

“Macbeth In Stride” is equal parts concert and play. “I always want my plays to feel like concerts,” Whitney White said.

Not only is music a way to bring a unique feeling to each character, but White sees it also as a way to welcome populations of all kinds into the Shakespearean stage.