“My favorite part of the show are all of the moments where Junie gets to talk to the audience,” she said. “You get to hear, like you do in the books with her journal entries, you get those journal entries in the play and they’re (said) directly to the audience. I think that’s a really fun thing that Allison Gregory, who adapted the book for the stage, did. It’s a cool way that she was able to keep that journal entry style thing in there. I get to say, ‘Hey, dear first grade journal, guess what happened at school today?’ I get to interact a little bit more that way.”