You're interpreting the article completely incorrectly.
It says they haven't petitioned
yet. They have two weeks to do so following the opening.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.