and he asked would i come to a reading at vasser. and i said, of course, i have no money. i will do anything that you ask me to do right now, particularly if there is a check attached to it. and he sent me the script and it was-- he spent me the script such as it was, you know, thus far. there was a first act and some scattered songs from the second act. and all the demos of lin singing every part of every song. and beats that he made i garage band, totally unfinished. and it was the most brilliant thing i ever heard. >> rose: what did they say. >> they said just come to vasser and do the reading. a and i did that i just kept showing up every time they showed me they were going do, i cancelled plan, took flights. i didn't want them to see anybody else because i wasn't actually qualified to do this. i had never done a musical before. i never saning in front of people before. i used to have to steal time with our music director outside of our rehearsal practice so he could actually teach me how to sing, you know. i was so uncomfortable doing everything except rapping. which