Jonathan Groff

This is in the first scene, which is chronologically the end of their story, but it's the first scene that the audience is seeing.

And Mary, who's the dearest friend of Frank, leaves.

And it's like...

It's like his heart walks out the door.

And just after that happens, this young, sort of like what would be the young version of Charlie, this young writer says, how do I get to be you?

Devastating line.

That's a devastating line.

And Frank says to this young man, don't just write what you know, pointing to his head, write what you know, touching his heart.

And some nights that line gets a bit of a laugh because maybe it's a bit of a douchey thing to say.

And it's called upon again at the end of the show in the very final scene.

Charlie says it to Frank and it starts everything.

It starts their collaboration.

It starts their love story.

It's the beginning of everything.

Yeah.

You don't just write what you know.

You write what you know.

It's such a good question.

I think that they wrote something really personal.

Stephen Sondheim and George Firth feels like just here, let me take my heart out of my body and just place it at your feet.