Purple Rain

Mm

... and, and the nurse is talking to him, so you're kind of fading in and out of consciousness, and, you know, the concept of the Purple Rain albums being behind him, and him visually looking into the future of the galaxy, and obviously we know there was some galaxy concept album that was gonna come.

So yeah, this song I just, I think I sit on the fence for, and, um, yeah, it just, I think I've heard it too much in the marketing and it just even, even with the visuals of the, uh, the album artwork, it just, it just feels a bit off for me personally.

Paddy?

Look, I wanna kind of do this as a kind of positive.

There have been some really good decision made, and even up 'til recently there's been some really good decisions made.

I think the, the going down the Purple Rain Musical route is fantastic way of-

Yep

That's like lightning.

And now that it's out of probate, You know, there's a lot we have going on, including Purple Rain on Broadway that's coming up in the spring and lots of other very big conversations we're having on things that could eventually be home runs.

But Prince has been a fantastic investment for us.

Absolutely fantastic investment so far.

And Saheem Ali also talked about like, I only did my thesis so that I could do Goddess, so that I could do musicals.

And now, you know, Purple Rain and Buena Vista Social Club.

When you look back at your thesis, Undrowned, What would you recognize as the beginning of the director you've become? And as we all do, what would make you cringe?

Great question.

That's super popular now.

I think every season we get at least one, this upcoming Broadway season, we're getting two between Dolly and purple rain.

Um,

I forgot about Purple Rain.

Yes.

Yeah.

Dolly and Purple Rain are both coming this year.

I think two years ago it was Just In Time and Buena Vista.