Put me in the camp, that while the new tweets don't completely absolve Sara of everything they said in the interview, it puts the interviews tone more into context which is I still don't understand how Sara did could not realize would be absent in a PRINT interview.
The biggest issue for me personally in that interview was the tone Sara appeared to have. Its not what you say, but how you say it. Sara made some legitimate criticisms, but they were lost in the tone and the me-centerless of the interview. I personally with few exceptions everyone deserves some grace. The fact that they seem to be reflecting that what they said might have harmed others, seems like a big step for them based on how they appear in the interview.
From what I've seen on social, I wonder if its the attacks on Diane that made Sara come out and say something. The pitchforks those defending Sara's remarks had for Diane were scary. It honestly points to the ironic sexism of those defending Sara. In the NPR interview with Sara, Diane, and Jeffrey also released on Friday, Jeffrey and Diane admit that at first they wanted to hide more feminine aspects of the women playing men, but after talking with the cast they slowly learned its best to not hide these and instead embrace these things. This directly correlates to Sara's comments in the interview saying they did not like/understand having to have men's mannerisms in the ART run, which based on the other interview Jeffrey and Diane listened to and adjusted.
This points to what's missing from Sara's initial interview, which I think they now understand is CONTEXT. They are so focused on telling their own story, they forget to point out that they were not the only ones in the room. Because of this they came off as self-centered and only caring about themselves to the detriment of everyone else involved.
I do have to say tweet 9 "9. I'm not afraid of the great White Way. I'd be sad to lose the job but my termination would only be further proof of this industry's inability to adapt & change for the better. The work I care about can be done on Broadway or off." definitely rubs me the wrong way. People can take criticism, but its all in how one presents it. People can say I am tone policing, but when you have a platform, what you say and how you say it matters. The irony of this entire tweet is it semi-contradicts the prior tweets where Sara basically acknowledges that the criticisms they made in the rehearsal room were addressed properly, she simply did not agree with some of outcomes and wanted the production to take things further. In their interview it comes off as Jeffrey and Diane refused to listen and created a toxic rehearsal space, when they clearly did the exact opposite. There's speaking truth to power when you see an injustice and bringing more attention to it when it is ignored, but that's clearly not the case here by Sara's own admission.
If there's one thing that this makes me understand its why Disney sends all of its stars to PR school to learn how to talk to the press because if Sara had even the slighted of PR communications training this would of never happened.
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