Speaker: Barry Friedman
What’s special about this musical?
Barry Friedman: Debora, the Golden Cage. Holy cow. Uh Wanted to thank you. I got to recently see a premiere video of that uh on Zoom with you with the playwright um in the audience here and have a Q and A afterwards with uh I don't know, 30 or 50 other attendees afterwards. Thank you for the whole experience. Uh The show itself uh summarizes the human experience pretty well, doesn't it? That cage we build and um how we have magical messengers along the way to uh show us the way out and then when we, we return like, wow, was that me in there? Was that me? So that whole evolution of life? Congratulations on a job well done. Um I hope this show takes off finds itself an audience and runs for 100 years. That would be fantastic because it is core to the human experience. It's, it was the hero's journey and done with the most simple set in the entire world which is going to work well for you as you're uh taking this on the road. Congratulations.
Describe which moments from the show stick with you – and why you remember them?
Barry Friedman: Shoot. I didn't realize there were multiple videos. I think I put it all into one. Ok.
Who do you think this story would appeal to – and why?
Barry Friedman: Who would this play, um, appeal to well, young and old. So we gotta, we gotta do that. I think it would appeal to the young in a way that it would, uh, give them something to look at for their entire life and look back on and think about and older folks to see times in their life when they can identify with the lead character and the decision she made and the situation she was in.
What are 3 adjectives would you use to describe this show?
Barry Friedman: I would call this play, engaging, personal and human.
Anything else you want to share about your experience?
Barry Friedman: The only thing I will share about this play is I hope that every young person in the world can see it at some point in their life. Um It was so um accessible and so relatable to no matter what the character was doing, it was uh how I like to see a good speaker tell a story that is personable enough, that is personal enough that in the audience I care about it and universal enough that I can uh lay my life and my experiences over it. And that's what happened in this show.