i remember crying when fantine died.ember falling asleep for a little while because i was 7-years-old. i remember javert's suicide, the master of the house and laughing really hard. after thelaughter death of fontine. the thing i remember most was seeing -- my parents brought home the two disc cast album and my mother would play "bring him home" on a loop and burst into tears, and it really moved me -- the effect music had on her. ♪ >> ♪ lord on high hear my prayer ♪ lin-manuel: seeing how this story and this man wanting this kid to live moved my mother to tears every time it was sung. i think that is as much of reason i'm in musical theater as anything else. charlie: because of the emotional connection with your mother? lin-manuel: because of the power musical theater has in terms of emotional connection. musical theater is not one art form. it is 14 art forms together. music, dancing, the lighting, the costumes have to be right. charlie: the set has to be right. lin-manuel: the set has to be right. but when it all cons

i remember crying when fantine died.ember falling asleep for a little while because i was seven. i remember javert's suicide, the master of the house and laughing really hard. the thing i remember most was seeing -- my parents brought home the two disc cast album and my mother would play "bring him home" on a loop and burst into tears, and it really moved me -- the effect music had on her. ♪ lord on high hear my prayer ♪ lin-manuel: seeing how this story and this man wanting this kid to live moved my mother to tears every time it was sung. i think that is as much of reason i'm in musical theater as anything else. charlie: because of the emotional connection with your mother? lin-manuel: because of the power musical theater has in terms of emotional connection. musical theater is not one art form. it is 14 art forms together. music, dancing, the lighting, the costumes have to be right. charlie: the set has to be right. lin-manuel: the set has to be right. conspires toll create those moments, there is nothing like it. char

i remember crying when fantine died.ember falling asleep for a little while because i was seven. i remember javert's suicide, the master of the house and the body this and laughing really hard -- bawdiness and laughing really hard. the thing i remember most was seeing -- my parents brought home the two-disc cast album and my mother would play "bring him home" on a loop and burst into tears, and it really moved me -- the effect music had on her. ♪ >> ♪ lord on high hear my prayer ♪ lin-manuel: seeing how this story and this man wanting this kid to live moved my mother to tears every time it was sung. i think that is as much of a reason i'm in musical theater as anything else. charlie: because of the emotional connection with your mother? lin-manuel: because of the power musical theater has that really nothing else has in terms of of emotional connection. musical theater is not one art form. it is 14 art forms a smashed together. music, dancing, the lighting, the costumes have to be right. charlie: the set has to be right.

i remember crying when fantine died. i remember falling asleep for a little while because i was seven. but i remember javert's suicide. i remember master of the house and the bawdiness and laughing really hard, much needed laughter after the death of fantien but the thing i also remember most was seeing my parents brought home the two disk, two cd at this point, cast album. and my mother would play bring him home on a loop. and burst into tears. and it really moved me, the affect that music had on her. ♪ god on high ♪ hear my prayer ♪ . >> seeing how this story and this man, you know, wanting this kid to live moved my mother to tears every time-- saning it. i think that is as much a reason that i'm in musical theater as anything else. >> rose: because the emotional connection with your mother. >> yeah. and because of the power that musical theater has, that really almost nothing else has in terms of emotional connection, you know. musical theat certificate not one art form. it's 14 art forms smashed together. the lightin