when i think about mohammad ali or marilyn munro or other icon, they seem to fail in this cultural niche and i wonder if withhink about that respect to your own characters. what is the niche that each of them felt? >> that is a good question. [laughter] you do this to me every time. it depends which point you are checking. but there are a number of things that it was doing as a story that other broadway shows were not doing and that the plaintiff came to broadway everyone thought the serious theater was dead, that had been murdered by the show casts essentially, both the animal and thess musical ca. so you had to spend one to three days seeing it that was a huge hit of its own. and i it having an impact on the way that pop culture from then on portrayed particularly gay men and people with aids. she is a gay man and it doesn't end in this kind of scene but demanding the rights we will be citizens the time has come. that was a huge thing to do in 1993. so, that's one way that it then. the momen moment if it's in nowf the characters as a mentor to the current president and not getting comp