Jonathan Groff

It's great that you bring up that line, too, because that is also the first line of the entire show.

Yesterday is done.

And the special gift of being an actor inside of this piece, because the show goes backwards, it forces the actor to be ultra-present, because unlike most shows where you build over an arc of an evening, you start at the beginning and go to the end, and you carry with you the whole...

to the final moment.

In this, you start at the end and you spend the show shedding your life until we're at the purest version, which is on the rooftop singing Our Time.

And yesterday is done.

To hear that at the top of the show and to start performing is such a reminder every day for me to be present.

And when I've made my way through the story and I get to the end, I feel like I am 18 years old.

I feel full of hope.

It's funny because it makes me emotional when I think about it as an adult, but when I'm inside of it, I really feel like I'm 18.

And then at the same time, I feel like I'm talking to Daniel Radcliffe.

And there are moments when I feel like there is no character there.

It is, of course, Frank and Charlie.

That's them.

We're trying to tell the story.

That's the most important thing.

But at the exact same moment, I'm saying these things to Dan, into his eyes.

And looking out at this audience on Broadway, like 40-plus years later...

on the edge of their seats at this show and it feels like anything is possible.

It's like the most inspiring, buoyant, life-affirming, exciting vibration to be inside of.