article_snippet: It really does It job of taking down America and uplifting It at the same time, in a weird sort of way,' said Dan Knechtges, the Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer. '
article_snippet: That bifurcated idea was first proposed by Michael Hodge, Paul's older brother, a lawyer in Australia, who co-wrote the story and now consults daily with his brother via Skype on last-minute changes. '
article_snippet: It seemed like a good device to sum up a very complicated man but also something that had a lot of opportunity for humor, and also something that allowed us to tell a story that everyone knows in way that everyone don't know,' said Paul Hodge, a Ph.D. candidate in musical composition at the University of Queensland.
article_snippet: That's part of the fun of doing something that's set in the past where people know what's going to happen in the future but the characters in the past don't know what's going to happen,' said Paul Hodge. '
article_snippet: Characters have also been deepened. '
article_snippet: Paul Hodge's a very complicated person, but I think we all are.
article_snippet: My view of all of the people involved in the story is that the people involved in the story're all very complicated human beings.'