Alexis Molnar: So my director and collaborator for that project, Max Friedman, is a New York City theatre director cabaret director, and has been working in the city for years. We got connected through some mutual friends because when I was working on "Dear Evan Hansen," and he approached me and asked me if I ever heard Fiona Apple's music before and at that time I hadn't heard a single thing. I maybe had heard "Criminal" on the radio but I didn't know it and he told me to, 'Listen to these three songs, see what you think, we'll go from there,' and hearing the gospel for the first time of an artist that you just really align with or a piece of work that just really hits hard. Max had approached me then with the idea of putting on a Fiona Apple-related cabaret. I had never done one before. I was terrified. But it just took a lot of trust, a lot of collaboration, and then I just became the biggest Fiona Apple fan ever. Her lyrics, her musicality are so intricate. I don't think there's another artist out there like her.