We're similar in the dynamics of our character, our cultural roots, our focus on family and our personalities. We both love to laugh. We make jokes all the time. We both work very, very hard, but we love and maintain an atmosphere of fun.

Knowing what goes on in a Latin family at mealtimes, ... I wanted to reflect the madness and the warmth and the fun of a Latin family. So, we made this new song.

As theater legends go, they don't get any bigger than Chita,

not only a great star but truly a force of nature. I'm 65 and when my body hurts or I'm about to complain, just being around her energizes me. She lights firecrackers inside me.

Bob Fosse told me if you open a musical script and there's more than a page or a page-and-a-half of text, you better tear off the paper there and stick in a number, because that's as long as people want to wait before you show them something,

She's up there kicking from beginning to end, ... You can't stop her. She's a force of nature. I can't imagine anyone at 20 being able to do what she does in her 70s, especially with the injuries she has suffered. There's something in her spirit, her soul ... a life force that can't be stopped.