david yazbek, welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> so this is an amazing musical, packed houses everywards season is coming up, fingers crossed. >> that's bad luck to yosz your fingers. >> what happens when a producer calls you up and says david, shall we do about a broadway musical about a fly blown nowhere town in israel based on an art house israeli movie. >> when any producer calls me up and asks me to do anything my first answer is no. >> i thought you were going to say yes. >> i go charging away and then i will call back and say give me a few weeks, let me think about it. let me see it. and with this one, seeing the movie was enough to make me turn around and say yes. >> well, before we get to the nitty-gritty of the story and all that inspired you, i want to play for you the legendary andrew lloyd webber who has got four broadway musicals on, the first time since rogers and hammerstein and this is what he said about story telling making good musicals. >> we not only have "hamilton" which sounds like an unlikely idea. the idea of an american founding father and hip-hop doesn't s