Why Gen Z are suddenly flocking to Broadway productions like Sam Gold's Romeo + Juliet
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'I literally told my agent, 'I would rather the play just not get done if it can't use that song,'' the playwright laughed.
She wrote Lorde a letter, explaining what the song meant, and got her 'Green Light'.
Starring Sadie Sink, the staggering play about high schoolers studying Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible as the #MeToo movement arrives in their small town in the US state of Georgia earned seven Tony nominations.
It is among a group of Broadway shows that have centred on the stories of young people and attracted audiences to match.
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