Michael Arden

I have a place outside of Hudson, New York.

So I had about two hours to listen to the music.

I listened to the demos.

I was like, hmm.

well, this music's really good.

It sounds like songs that might've existed forever with the jazz stuff.

And then the other part of the score I thought was just like, Mr. Rogers meets Sufjan Stevens.

I mean, it was really beautiful and interesting and not saccharine and smart lyrics.

But I just listened to the songs without knowing what the story was.

And so then I got home and then I

immediately was intrigued so i started reading the script and i read it in like 45 minutes and was totally wrecked by it when i got to that last scene and he spoiler alert turns to woboon and says shh don't tell her okay that he hadn't erased

I was a mess.

I was a mess.

I cried halfway through, started crying halfway through, and continued crying until the end.

Yeah, it reminded me of my grandparents.

It reminded me of me.

And the fact that they're robots, we kind of just let them in a little bit more easily because we can't imagine they'd ever...

Screw with our emotions.

You know, like there is something about that disconnect that I love about theater that their friends affect a little bit.

Yeah.