Sam Pinkleton

Like, they're mission aligned in, I think, their belief that everyone is deserving of a great night out at the theater that you can only get by...

putting your pants on and going into a room with strangers and all of the terror and joy that comes with that.

O'Mary, however, was intended to exist in a small room for eight weeks with our dumb friends.

And then something else happened.

Totally, yeah.

So it has been a very different experience knowing from the beginning that we would make this on Broadway at Studio 54.

And frankly,

Nobody knew what O'Mary was.

Totally.

You know, it's like, what the hell is it?

It's like, gay people and Mary Todd Lincoln?

And this is like, oh, awesome, you're doing Star Wars.

Yes, yes, yes.

But I...

I love working on Broadway.

It's the second show I've directed, but it's crazily my tenth Broadway show as a something.

It is for a thing that is, you know, in many ways for the masses and for hopefully people from all over and from many different experiences.

It's just a lot of nice people coming to work every day, trying to solve problems.

And Studio 54, especially, and I don't know if this is because of the greatness of Roundabout, who is our producer, or just the ghosts of Studio 54.

It's really felt like making theater in a real way and not in a like, this is a Broadway musical, like sponsored by Pepsi.