Podcast
Freakonomics Radio
The book, published in 2020, is a memoir by David Adjmi, in which he writes about seeing "Sweeney Todd" when he was eight years old, and how the play helped him understand his own "psyche" as an outsider.
When I was writing my memoir, I couldn't get a sense of the shape because it was so big. There were so many hundreds of pages that I was like, oh my God, I can't even get a sense of what this shape is...
— Episode: 592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Bro...
Episode: 592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway
The book, published in 2020, is a memoir by David Adjmi, in which he writes about seeing "Sweeney Todd" when he was eight years old, and how the play helped him understand his own "psyche" as an outsider.
When I was writing my memoir, I couldn't get a sense of the shape because it was so big. There were so many hundreds of pages that I was like, oh my God, I can't even get a sense of what this shape is. In a play, it's much more skeletal. You can feel the shape of it. You can trace the vertebrae of it when you're writing it. It's much easier to wrap your head around it.
Ajme grew up in a fairly strange, often dysfunctional, always loud family of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn. In his memoir, Lot 6, published in 2020, he writes about seeing Sweeney Todd when he was eight years old.