we start on broadway with "sticks and bones" written by david rabe starring holly hunter, bill pull uhm and chair berlin. >> you can kind of build around that or destroy what the reputation is or enhance it and my goal was to do both and humanize in a more complicated psychology that that was presented as ozzie and harriet but also to cut my way through the value. part of my satisfaction with production is that, the play itself has -- is an experience beyond its political content you know, whereas, in '72 it was very difficult to do that. >> we conclude this evening with the singer-songwriter john mellencamp. >> i think great songwriters have the ability to realize that there's always another song. and some people think oh, i have written -- i had a guy once ask me, a very famous songwriter ask me, he said, john, have you ever had a writing block? and i went -- i won't mention his name but i just said, man, look our the window. there's so much to write about, how could you possibly have a writing block? i couldn't possibly cover all of the topics that i feel i need to write about if i j

bill pullman, holly hunter, and richard chamberlain. welcome and congratulations. is this the right time for this play to come back? >> it seems to be. it was the right time for me to get a glorious production. >> the right directory and the right cast? >> i tried to get it on numerous other times and it didn't work. i'm kind of grateful that did not happen because this is such a great production. >> in terms of timeliness, were coming out of iraq and vietnam. i just interviewed the secretary of defense and one thing we talked about is how suicide is rising in terms of people returning for all kinds of reasons. people are surviving things they previously did not because of medical care. the issue of how we treat veterans is still an issue. from vietnam. ptsd did not exist at the time. i would never say i had it, but i was certainly messed up. my experience over there in the conventional sense did not justify me saying i had it. i did not feel at home when i came home, that was for sure. >> you are in the medical unit. when you came back, you did not jump into antiw