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It started with a viral tweet: "Did Anne Frank ever acknowledge her white privilege?" Composer and lyricist Andrew Fox saw that tweet in 2022 and turned it into Slam Frank, a satirical Afro-Latin hip-hop musical in which a progressive theatre company reimagines the Frank family hiding from the Nazis, complete with a pansexual Latina Anita, a neurodiverse Mr. Frank, and a love interest who is just very, very confused. Patrick Pacheco sits down with Fox, book writer Joel Sinensky, and director Sam LaFrage to discuss the most talked-about, argued-about, and laughed-about show to hit New York in years. The conversation covers identity politics, the moral superiority of the theatre world, what good art is actually supposed to do to an audience, and whether what they're after is catharsis or, as Fox puts it, agita. Plus, senior producer Roberto Araujo catches up with the cast.

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