Slide #2
In the initial version, which was staged on Broadway last winter, the focus was largely on the lawyers' arguments, but after having watched it, Black was quoted as saying that he wanted to know more about the multitude of witnesses, who made the pro-gay-marriage argument by simply talking about their lives, love, hopes and fears. Black rewrote a new draft accordingly with more of a focus on the witnesses, including the same-sex couples played here by Jamie Lee Curtis & Christine Lahti, and Matt Bomer & Matthew Morrison.