Ozdust Duet (Bonus Track) - Commentary

The way that Cynthia lets us into Elphaba in the Oz Dust ballroom is

So special and so moving, and it is a massive turning point for both

Elphaba and Glinda, and I think, um, it was just such a beautiful

Experience, and everyone was just kind of holding space for Elphaba

In that room, and you could hear a pin drop every second of that

Entire day. It was really, really beautiful. It wasn't enough just

To have a piece of choreography, 'cause then it would just be

Choreography, it's just her dancing. What we were looking for was

What, what was she trying to say with this piece, and what was she

Trying to do? And once we got to the, the crux of it, once we got to

The, the center of what this piece was for her, then we could find

The language, the words, and the words are the movement, the, the

The singular movements that we put together to create an

Entire paragraph or a sentence or a song, and that's the

Language we had to find. So, once we found what we wanted

All those things came together to share the pain that she

Was enduring and to share the loneliness and to share the

Defiance, but also the surrender to being okay with being alone