I had a good time, but it wasn't as loose and freewheeling, partly because it was the first big animated film of a major new studio. Schwartz also wrote the music and lyrics for Geppetto, an original TV musical that aired in May on The Wonderful World of Disney. He is working with book writer Winnie Holzman on Wicked, a new musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel about how the Wicked Witch of the West became wicked. Children of Eden gave the Genesis myth a new spin, and my Geppetto looked at Pinocchio from the father's point of view. There are two sides to every story, but we tend to simplify and categorize things.
People are good guys or bad guys.
We invent these myths for our public figures that have very little to do with our reality, but life is much more ambiguous.