the story does sing. It's like the musicals I loved as a kid when I had my head stuck in the stereo listening to Rodgers & Hammerstein shows.

I was in the room with a great actress who had no experience with Cherry?s performance ... and we just started working together from scratch.

We were very interested in avoiding the fallacy that you can replicate on three completely different people the performance of the three other people.

The character's need to see himself in a certain light, that light of an officer and a gentleman, has a universal significance. We need to believe that our purpose here is noble, that we stand for something.

It's the story of parents whose children take their lessons at loving each other too literally,

was a master of a number of theatrical dialects, but his work was always characterized by a profoundly humane spirit. Derek believed that the theater could really matter. In a brief but extraordinary career, he demonstrated just that.