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I talked to Wasserman about what it’s been like for him to perform what he called “the last show I’d ever wanna have to do.”
She’s been wholly supportive. There’s never been a moment where I was thinking, “I should probably run this by her or something,” only because ultimately this is my truth. So she has no say, but there were a couple things within the show that at first I was a bit hesitant about her seeing. Just in terms of, “Is this gonna trigger her?” I was worried that there’s one moment in the show that’s pretty vulnerable in exposing our shared loss and our experience with it.
I’ve done it in a funeral home. I have it lined up next year for a couple more funeral homes and cemeteries and a casket factory. It’s very purposeful. My friend is a funeral director and was, at the time, the funeral director of[in Brooklyn]. We were at a party, and I was telling her that I had this new show that I’m gonna start workshopping, and she was like, “Oh, you should do it at the funeral home.” Then a few months later, I did the first one at the funeral home and it sold out.
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