>> guest: no review that i can remember that was at all critical was in the new yorker by hilton hillsndreds upon the static reviews of the show. i think it's inevitable that somebody will come along. when you have them come along say this is the greatest show. >> c-span: did you know this was going to happen? >> guest: no. but back in january 2012 lynn 12 lynn did a performance about ten or 12 songs at the lincoln center and the audience was full of people in their 20s and 30s. they weren't even staged really. he got up where the sum of the other cast members and sang the songs that i can remember at the end all these young people in their 20s and 30s were on their feet cheering, screaming and stomping. i looked around and said oh my gosh, is, is this a preview of the future? every time the material was tested out in front of the audience response was extraordinary. then i remember we went to theater festival and the place was crawling. every producer in the room and they're saying this is like the greatest thing i've ever seen. so we had them for nation and inclinations that might ha