Why Are These Characters Cracking Jokes While Crying? - Inside the complicated tone of 'A Letter to Harvey Milk'
Inside the complicated tone of A Letter to Harvey Milk---While the new musical A Letter to Harvey Milk explores themes of loss, regret, and denial, it leavens the heaviness with Borscht Belt-style jokes. For the creators, this mix of tragedy and humor was integral to the storytelling and the artistic process. After all, it took more than two decades to bring it to Off-Broadway.Based on a short story of the same name …