Joe DiPietro

…In the first episode of this series, we heard about the creation of a new musical called Three Summers of Lincoln, as in Abraham Lincoln. The show is set during the Civil War and it centers around Lincoln's relationship with the abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The producers Alan Shore and Richard Winkler commissioned the playwright Joe DiPietro to write th…

…No. Well, not for me. I don't want to speak for anybody else. Or I want to say for Joe and I, the poetry comes first, right? Now my musical theater nerd is going off. In musical theater, first you say it, and then once the emotion overcomes you, you sing it. And if it's too much to sing, then you dance it. So it kind of goes the same way.…

…Oh, Lord, that just sounds silly. Like, oh, no, Joe, why is this the thing you're calling about? You know, I've been waiting for years for you to call me and like this is the thing. But only because how I'm used to seeing Lincoln depicted is what I was, you know, coming from. But the other thing is that time period of how America broke and then came back to…