He's very easy to get along with.

He really is.

Yeah.

I love the man dearly.

I really, really do.

And, of course, our relationship, you know, developed over time.

And when I first – so the great orchestrator, Danny True, who has worked with Alan longer than I have – knew that Alan, back in 93, was losing his then longtime music director, who was going off to do other things.

So can you tell us about the differences and how that worked going from a score into a theatrical piece?