Alyse Alan Louis as Hillary Clinton in 'Soft Power,' running at The Public Theater.
Joan Marcus
David Henry Hwang’s “play with a musical” investigates why we’re addicted to our political system — even if it nearly kills us.
“Musicals can be very tricky,” Jeanine Tesori explains. “Because when you deliver something and you put a beautiful string section underneath it, it sways you. It sways you because of the physics of music, and the overtone series and the ways that music is embedded inside the science of being alive.”