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They're cheering for me now

In my mind, they're cheering for me now. Right up Broadway, they're cheering for me now

One day soon, all the jobs I have to do will make my dreams come true

It starts today. I came here with nothing like hundreds before me

and millions behind me I know you can find me in New Year's

cheering for me now and you're cheering for me now Where everyone's different

What's it been like being in the room with Susan Stroman, John Cantor

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the spirit of Fred Ed? Yeah, I mean it's a dream

Dream. These are things that you never expect to happen to you as a young performer

And what's so lovely is that they're all incredible humans. Yes, of course, we know they're smart and they make good music

but they have hearts of gold and they attract really, really wonderful people to them

So the room is just electric. It's electric and it's full of love

So going to work is very easy. I keep saying, my therapist knows a lot about John Kander, okay

Because I keep coming in and I go there this man and every time he speaks I cry and I don know what going on But I do know what going on Partially why I even do this is because of the dignity that John Kander and Fred Ebb gave us with all their work

Well, of course, it's the collaboration I've loved the most to be able to collaborate with John Kander and Lynn Manuel Miranda and David Thompson and Sharon Washington

All of us love New York. That's why we're here. And we just love it

So now to be able to create a piece that is for New York

is a Valentine New York, to talk about the resilience of New York and its people

it's been a glorious, just glorious collaboration. Collaboration, in my experience, is a really good time

I mean, you hear a lot of stories and you read a lot of stuff about how people are at each other's throats

We don't have that. and for us to sit in a room and, I'm sorry, back to the same thing, try to make art together is really fun

That's a dumb answer, but it's the truth. Yeah, no, it's an absolute blast

And then the joy of watching this cast, too. I mean, you saw how incredibly talented they are

I remember when I, you had the experience I had when I saw the workshop and I saw the steel beams come down

and a billion people come on stage with tap shoes, and I went, this is a Susan Stroman musical

We're about to get something very exciting happen. He said after the workshop

he said, one of the great joys in life is hearing the sound of tap shoes

that coming toward you in a Strowman show It true Yeah Well we started working on the piece We looked at the film and the film brings to it 1946 which is Life After the War

and it also brings a central story of Jimmy Doyle and Francine Evans

But we realized if we're really going to tell the story of New York City

we have to tell it bigger, and we have to include so many more people. And suddenly it was a story about all the people who come to New York to do something

and they couldn't do someplace else. Jimmy and Francine will follow them

They're in the center of that story. But I think what makes New York so special for all of us

is there are stories everywhere. And you look in a window, you look on a bus stop

they're all there and they happen. And that to me is the most exciting part

It's big. It is unabashedly big, yet it is also intimate and beautiful

It has everything that you would ever want in a Broadway musical

Yeah, it's, it's, Interestingly, after coming out of this pandemic and the city is still, you know, trying to find its footing again

there are a lot of similarities to the story that we're telling, which is, you know, it takes place 1946, post-World War II

Same thing. They're taking the boards off the windows and they're trying to find themselves again

And so it's crazy because the idea for the show came about before we had a pandemic

But now after the pandemic, it's even more appropriate. Why is this musical so perfect for right now

I mean, because it just shows New York in its wholeness. Like there, I feel like there is going to be a moment in the show that you will relate to as New York

If you've been visited the city, you will relate to something in this show for sure

I feel like when the pandemic started and throughout there was sort of this discourse that New York City was lost or that it wasn the same than it used to be or that it lost this sort of heart And I think that this show shows so

much of the resiliency of this city and how this city pushes through and how this city has really

never stopped. And I'm really excited for people to be able to see that this city keeps going no matter

what it goes through. It's as true in 1946, which is when it takes place as it is right now. It's

the story of the city and its resilience. And we're whole. hoping that people who come to see it will feel the love and the hope that the city continuously

shows up regardless of how challenging times can be. Yes, resilience through the struggles and just getting a glimpse as well, a small glimpse

into the lives of these immigrants that cultivated a lot towards this country in 1946

If it is perfect for right now, I think it's because maybe we all need to

remind, be reminded, A, this wonderful place we live, and secondly, that

all things are possible. Yeah, I think New York is where people come from all over the world

to become themselves, and this show embraces that, and holds a mirror up to us

in the audience. Come on, come through New York