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Bekah Brunstetter on Bringing 'The Notebook' to the Broadway Stage: "It's Really Gratifying" | THR Video
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6/17/2024
Broadway's 'The Notebook' writer Bekah Brunstetter chats with THR on the carpet for the 2024 Tony Awards and shares her experience bringing 'The Notebook' to the stage and her first-hand experiences with dementia.
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Congratulations on your Tony nomination. Where were you when you found out about the nomination?
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I was in bed because I live in LA, so it was 5 30 in the morning. So I was trying to
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not care, you know, and sleep, but I shot out of bed at 5 30. Like,
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you know, I've been wondering, you know, you get you get anxious about it. So I was like asleep,
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and then was able to like share the moment with my husband. It was really special.
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Yeah. What was your experience in bringing the notebook to the stage? And what inspired you to
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do so? Well, um, I just love the story. There's a lot of dimension in my family. I've seen
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firsthand what it's like to lose someone to it. And I just an opportunity to kind of honor the
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truth of what's nasty about the disease, but also provide a little hope and uplift
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for people who are going through it, people who are experiencing it with their own family members.
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So I was just instantly drawn to it. And it's been really, really gratifying because it's such
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a universal story. And it's really, it's really special when you get to write one thing that
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appeals to so many people. That's always like, a really, really good feeling.
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And also the music Ingrid Michaelson's music lyrics is just incredible. What was your experience
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like working with her and and her kind of coming on board for this?
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Well, she started it. She's she I came on after her and she had already written about five songs.
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And that's what made me want to do it was her. I was kind of like, I think I want to do this. I
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think it'd be a beautiful musical. But then as soon as I heard her music, I knew I I had to be
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involved because it just like took my breath away. And we've become family, you know, it's been
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working on eight years. And now she's we're here together tonight. And she's my sister, you know,
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that and she will be forever. And I love that, like, it's almost the best part of this whole
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thing is like, finding her as a collaborator. And we will be making many more things together.
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And we're excited about that. Excited and also to nominations for Dorian and Marianne.
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How exciting is that? And also bringing together all of the Noah's and Ali's on stage?
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Yeah, it's I mean, Dorian, Dorian and Marianne being nominated is so special, because we always
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wanted to highlight the older characters with the show. So the fact that they got nominated
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just confirms that we did that, that they really, like, you know, are a big part of the show. And
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it's important to me that that older people see themselves in the show and feel honored and feel
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heard. So that's really cool. Yeah. And finally, what is your favorite production on or off Broadway
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right now outside of your own, of course? Oh, my gosh, I love the Outsiders. I loved it. I loved
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it. That the thing that everyone's talking about that rumble scene in Act Two is my new like,
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David Cromer, Our Town best theater moment ever moment. Yeah, so good.
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