Maria Friedman

And I remember just sitting there shaking.

It was the first time he was ever really crossed with me.

Just thinking, oh.

And Jonathan and I share an exact same thing, is that he came in...

into the rehearsal room and he gave me and everybody many many notes in Sunday in the Park with George and I had about 21 different notes where he said when you do this do that when you do that do that I just nodded nodded nodded and he flew into my dressing room that evening and he said I was ready to be really mad at you and

Because I thought, who is this arrogant girl without her notebook and her pencil?

She didn't write down one thing I said.

And then you did them all.

And it's exactly the same.

And that's where our friendship started there at that point.

Huge amount.

And my other child's mentor along with – I mean he mentored a lot of young writers.

It meant everything.

I asked him after I'd had a big health scare –

We were walking along Covent Garden.

We always held hands or, you know, we're just like just walking.

He loved walking the streets of London.

And when I got diagnosed, he said, I'm taking you to the hospital.

I mean, he was, you know, he was very much...

He was a great friend to those of us lucky enough to... I don't want to own him, that's the thing.