“Climate affects how long, how hot, and how dry fire seasons are,” Natasha Stavros, a NASA engineer who studies wildfires,said in that piece upon the announcement of the musical. “The story sings to me so perfectly.” The singer-songwriter also added that she cried in the bathroom after being approached about the Broadway project, explaining: “I have loved the movie and the story for so many years now that the idea of turning it into a musical overwhelmed me.” Obsessed. Also, Lena Dunham. I just feel like that [Tina and Lena’s] stuff is really funny but it's also very serious and just aware of the world around them.__TV: Wildfire smoke from the western coast of North America is impacting air quality all the way on the other side of the continent. Meteorological tracking mapspublished by theNew York Times