Jonathan Groff

stood here as a ghost in Spring Awakening, and Lea Michele stood over this shoulder.

Lindsay Mendez, LM, Lea Michele, LM, the same initials of the actresses standing on this side of the thing.

Talk about sense of memory.

I had crazy things come up on that one.

There would be moments where I, because also it was the most, I think, well, he said, it was the most autobiographical thing he ever wrote.

He said that about the song Opening Doors, but I have a feeling from all the people that came through to see the show that we could talk to after and the people that knew him and Hal Prince and Mary Rogers that this was about him and his two friends and these relationships that fracture over time and the heartbreak and the disappointment.

And I would be saying a line to Lindsay on stage forever

And I would say it and it would come out and it would feel like Frank talking to the character of Mary.

It would feel like Steve talking to Mary Rogers.

It would feel like Jonathan talking to Lindsay in this like crazy, like therapeutic exorcism.

It was wild.

It was every dream I ever had come true.

Yeah.

And then we made this movie of it.

And that I went on Monday night last week to go see it just in a normal movie theater.

And I was like weeping.

Just like I cannot believe this happened.

can i believe how maria the director directed it so beautifully for film and and it's like a hybrid between a like filming of a theater piece and a movie like what she made is so unique and special and feeling the audience in the movie theater get the story and the idea that this was his big flop of his career and apparently his big heartbreak stephen sondheim and how prince it was the end for many years of their

really fruitful over a decade long collaboration that this show is like captured in this way and is playing in movie theaters is like, you can't, it's so surreal.

Yes, and you're exactly right.