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The most incredible audience to have. I remember we will always remember this
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Thank you so much. Of course, any musical, it's a miracle. Any musical gets up
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But what we want to show you tonight are the people that made this happen
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And the first is the creators of music, have
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the best crew in the ST James Box
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on for these two people. And that is Sonia Friedman
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that against me if you can make
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it here and she was not going to L A but
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Broadway is means so much to us and when the lights are on in Broadway
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uh it's on in New York, but don't merely believe what happens here
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Stays here. It has stay throughout the entire country. America is waiting for us to say we need to smile again
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We need to laugh again. COVID took so much out of us
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but we are resilient. We've been here before New York, New York opening on Broadway
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sending a signal that we are not coming back. Damn it, we are back
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It is really the reason we are all here and that is John
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So for a couple of years now at my advanced age, I'm coming to understand that there is
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nothing in the world, Chris, there
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is nothing in the world that's wonderful as making art with your friends
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There is one friend who is only sort of missing tonight and that's my collaborator
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for 40 years for stop
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coming to opening nights very early on because we just couldn't stay
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Ok, Fred, you're here with us tonight. The
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first line of the show on three. I love this city. Ready. Here we go. 123
