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Tell me what it was like working together on this

Well, I know what you're going to say because I've been sitting with you for the past five minutes. I mean, David is my little brother

And so for me, what? Nice. Okay, you know, and so I feel like at this point

it's our family business. We don't have a dry cleaning shop. We make theater together, and I love him

and he knows that. And all of his family slightly more than I love him

That's all right. I love hers a little bit more than her as well. Yeah, we have a great time

Look, obviously the collaboration is, that's the work part and, you know, that's all amazing

But better than that, I love working with her while laughing most of the day

And that's really what you want, seriously, when you're creating together. Have laughter in the room and do whatever you want to do, right

Yeah, you want serious fun. Yeah. You know, we don't fight, we debate

And, you know, we are pretty scratch. We're pretty scrappy people and we want to get it right

And that's the difference about I don't want to be right. I mean, there is always a little part that's like, I want to get it right

And we're partners in that. And we want to honor the people who get up there eight times a week in the musicians and that crew and the ushers

Because they're the ones who, there, we go on to write something else and they make it happen eight times a week

And we want to make it worth their time. You know, it sounds very corny, but I think we're most of the first

excited for everyone else who's been nominated on our show. I mean, when it's about yourself, it's sort of surreal

I can't even really wrap my head around it. But to see so many people from our show you know that very exciting And who doesn want Mariah Carey to get a Tony Come on Will she be an Egot then No I don think so

But we'll say she is. We'll say she is. I mean, this cast is so incredible

They're all right next to us here, having their photos taken. I mean, like you said, so many incredible nominations you receive for this show

Yes, we got 13 for hairspray. So maybe it's a lucky number for us

So, yeah. But you know, it's really thrilling to know that all these. people are gotten nominations from that we had a part at it and and a lot of the people that we had a

part in at one in the past so fingers crossed what's made this so special with working on

shocked for both of you well getting to do it together is is huge and then also Robert horn you know

he we met him at a time when we were clueless not that we're much more clued in now but we

were clueless and Robert really held our hands and he taught us, you know, how to work in this world. And so just the relationship to me between the

three of us is my favorite part of it. The teamwork aspect of it, even beyond the three of us

there is nothing like succeeding with a team that you've watched everybody work tirelessly

for years. And so just getting to celebrate that together. I mean, we're getting to have this

conversation with you and wear these pins, but there are so many people who don't get a pen

who did this with and for us. So I think the teamwork aspect of it has just been, it's blown

my mind because in our you know in our respective careers it a lot of me and it a lot of her But together it just feels like a whole other level Okay so now that you written your first Broadway musical it in your DNA it in your muscle memory you want to come back right Oh for sure

I mean, I've been like trying to hog tie Shane and Robert into a new idea, you know

which is maybe not the smartest we might need to take a beat, because right now I'd write, like, microphone the musical with them

So, you know. I swear last night I got banana pudding, and I swear there was a moment where I was like

is this an idea for a musical? We'll only do food. Only food

Your show has brought so much joy to so many people in the time you were here

What that meant to you, seriously, being in that house and watching what you did to an audience

I went to see Parade last night, you know, so it was back to the Jacobs Theater

And I felt our spirit is a different room, obviously, but I felt the spirit of what happened in that room

And that's something Tom prepared me for. That was way different from other things I'd done

You'll meet people. You'll fall in love with your cast, and they'll be there for you every night. night singing these songs and bringing them to life. And it was kind of a love story between all of us

that we were able to bring this show about music is love, basically, on the wings of Tom's music

You know, it's never to be forgotten. And we're still in great touch with our cast. And the

feeling lives on. I feel very enormous gratitude in this moment. And as Cameron said

It's a musical about the love of music and about finding your voice as an artist for me

Cameron's work always resonates in terms of the human condition and the kind of person that I wanna be

When my kids were old enough, I couldn't wait to show them Cameron Crow films

and watch them and experience them the way I did. So to get to make that musical to get to be in this world of music this period of music that was so important to me when I discovered it and this cast as Cammer said this family that created the show with us

There's no score without this group of artists and musicians that breathe life into it every night

But you realize now, your show lives on now. Yeah, baby. To be done anywhere

I know. It's just a thrill. I can hear my mom who generated so much of this cheering upstairs

I think she pulled some strings. and I know she was very happy the day Tom Kipp walked into our lives

It's a personal story that became universal, and every night everybody was standing and singing Fever Dog

And to imagine that that would happen from something that was just a small story from the heart long ago

is the miracle being able to create. What's so special about Some Like a Hot is that we're working with Mark Shaman and Scott Whitman

I mean, they're legends. They're incredible, and they're so, so good at what they do

that it's an honor and a privilege to help bring their members. music to life. This story is one that's so special to me

It's about a woman of color leading an integrated band across America

And it's an honor and a privilege to be able to bring that same authenticity to the score

and to the music. What's made this so special for the two of you? You know, we haven't talked about it much, but I feel like we get to do this together

I think that's exciting. We worked on the show for six years, and now here we are, and it's a big deal. Yeah, it's amazing that, you know, this process graduates

You talk about it in little ways and then it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And these ideas that you had six years ago are now exploding in confetti on stage

It's a wonderful, yeah, wonderful experience. And you've got Tony Pins. Hey, hey, look at that

You like that. And it's magnetic and it's very fantastic. Yeah