been told to many generations is back on broadway. ♪ >> i caught up with one of the co-stars david alan grieroh, yeah >> whoa, whoa! ♪ ♪ bop, be-bop, bow, boo >> we're here with the legendary actor david alan grier. thank you for being here today, man. >> thank you for having me. >> talk to me about this new play that you're a part of. the old and new, right? >> new production directed by diane pollis. myself, norm lewis, audra mcdonald ripping it up, man, every night, having a ball. >> what's it like to have to take hold of an opera, a musical that's been so important to so many people? >> well, there's a lot of ownership. you know, when you do this production of -- this is probably the greatest and most well known american opera, so everybody has a lot of ownership. they remember how they saw it. they remember the film, their favorite production. you know, they come with all of that. it was really for me as an artist and for us it's trying to carve out our own production, treating oufrsz as artists and putting that -- putting that over to the side. i'm really not trying to compete with any