Nathan Lane

And, you know, more than anything that I did, she loved when I was in a musical.

You know, I'm sentimental about this.

She always would say after every show, I'm not, she would say, I'm not saying this because I'm your mother.

I'm saying it because it's true.

You were the best one.

So I'll always remember that.

I don't know.

That's what came out of my mouth.

That's what I felt.

I'll give you a little story about that number.

When we were discussing it and talking about it, before we went into rehearsal, I said to Mel, I disappear in the second act.

I said, I need an 11 o'clock number.

And so...

So he wrote a song called Farewell to Broadway, which was kind of a – you know, it was a sentimental song.

And in the middle of it, there was a speech he had about how angry he was about being betrayed by Leo.

And I said to him –

The song isn't right, but the monologue you wrote in the middle of it is.

It's got to be his version of Rose's Turn.

And he went off and wrote Betrayed.

And he, you know, Mel just knocked it out of the park.