"Honestly, when I came in to meet with the creative team about doing Edna [on Broadway], I was a little underwhelmed watching the show," Wendt says, "until the Little Inez scene. And all of a sudden, I got it. I thought, 'Oh, my God, this isn't just a fizzy popular entertainment with pretty girls and pretty boys singing. It's about civil rights.' This show turned on a dime for me. I didn't see it at first through all the Broadway glitz."