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Despite being “a small near from what everyone other is doing connected Broadway,” Shucked garnered a whopping — and deserved — 9 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Playwright Robert Horn brought Grammy Award-winning country euphony songwriters Shane MacAnally and Brandy Clark into the task astir 10 years ago, inspired to marque a state music-leaning Broadway philharmonic that told the communicative of “outliers.” “I knew I wanted to make a amusement astir a tiny municipality that believed what they believed, but were inclusive wrong their community. There was a small spot of everything, but they didn’t privation anybody telling them however to unrecorded their lives and closed themselves disconnected from the extracurricular world.” Horn recalled successful an EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife for the Tony Contenders series. “I needed a harvest that would turn gangly and adjacent their walls up… and maize was the evident thing.”
Robert Horn. (Emilio Madrid)
Horn crafted a hilarious publication that’s filled with dada jokes, ridiculous truths, snorting-laugh moments and a full batch of heart, portion moving simultaneously connected the people with Brandy and Shane, who place arsenic portion of the LGBTQ+ assemblage yet person made careers wrong the blimpish state euphony industry. “I conscionable fell successful emotion with them,” Horn recalled. “They are out, arrogant cheery artists wrong this blimpish satellite of state music, and I don’t cognize that I’ve ever worked connected a task that was this collaborative and that truly is simply a grounds to our director, Jack O’Brien, who wanted everybody progressive successful each decision.”
The playwright admitted that Shucked‘s comedic-heavy publication and country-leaning people makes the philharmonic a small antithetic from the traditional Broadway musical, but that whitethorn beryllium the concealed to its success. “We’re coming retired of a truly acheronian time, and I deliberation successful presumption of community, globally, I deliberation we privation to laughter and we privation to link to a communicative without being lectured to wherever we consciousness thing that we’re each feeling collectively arsenic a community. That’s what the amusement is about,” Horn told HL. “The amusement is astir assemblage and household and learning to judge radical who are antithetic than you successful bid to turn arsenic a person, arsenic a town, arsenic a country.”
Robert Horn. (Emilio Madrid)
He continued, “We ever accidental astatine Shucked, we’re not going to lick the world’s problems, but if we tin assistance heal it a little, that’s perfect. And I ever believe, and I’ve had a vocation agelong vocation of doing this, that if you tin marque radical laugh, you tin commencement a conversation.”
Robert Horn is portion of HollywoodLife’s Tony Contenders series, successful which we interrogation the biggest existent stars connected Broadway who are successful contention for the upcoming Tony Awards connected June 11, 2023.
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