Diane Warren on #MeToo Musical 'The Right Girl': "Music Is a Powerful Tool to Get Voices Heard"

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Harvey Weinstein accuser Louisette Geiss recalls feeling more than a prickle of anxiety when cold-pitching songwriting legend Diane Warren on penning music and lyrics for her sexual harassment musical The Right Girl during a women's conference in Santa Monica in Oct.

2019. "I ran up to her and said hello, I'm Louisette Geiss, I'm a Harvey Weinstein survivor and we're going to do a musical about 25 women telling their stories, and I've got Howard Kagan and Susan Stroman, so I'd love if there's any way I could speak to you about this at a later time," she told The Hollywood Reporter.

Turns out that Hail Mary pitch about a #MeToo musical based on true stories did far better with Warren than an earlier screenplay pitch that Geiss did with.

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