How ‘The Notebook’ Broadway Musical Highlights the Universality of the Story’s Enduring Romance

Even if you don’t know “The Notebook,” you know there’s a romantic couple at the heart of the story. But in the new Broadway musical adaptation of “The Notebook,” there’s not just one couple — there’s three: Three actors playing each of the two characters at different times of their lives.

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“We certainly didn’t invent the concept of splitting one character between three actors, but it felt very right for this,” said the show’s book writer, Bekah Brunstetter, appearing with songwriter Ingrid Michaelson on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s theater podcast. “It allowed us to really make our show different from the

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