divas and i continue to do concerts and i'm about to do the hollywood bowl next month we're doing sondheim on sondheim which i did on broadway in two thousand and ten and we're doing an evening with due to mellow with the orchestra but i think that's july twenty third two things and in the qualms no barbara cook did that barbara's not me doing this so i don't know whose to answer in the class you still issue we're going on an album or broadway music i got to get to it that's it's been there i will do it it's on my list of things to do and finding time to get back in the studio but i don't get the songs in the shows and most of the songs are stings that i sang when i was a musical theater major or did things a summer theater so these are songs that have some personal all familiar yeah never will i marry. a john. you know songs that kind of made my career when nobody knew me you were nominated for nine grammys you never won. do you go to i don't want anything do you go to them. not unless i have. something that's been asked but i haven't been in a while we are back on broadway i would love t

damien likes sondheim, so when damien was in the show we would sing sondheim songs together. sing tunes that -- i pick tunes that are sort of appropriate to the scene and they just sort of calm my head and it just kind of quiets me down. >> seth: gotcha. that's nice. do you think it calms other people down? >> no, i think it annoys everyone else. [ laughter ] >> seth: well, you have to make choices as an actor. >> profoundly, yeah. >> seth: speaking of sondheim, jake gyllenhaal was here. he said you came and saw "sunday in the park with george." >> oh, my god. i did. and i was so worried, 'cause -- the moment the play started, and the first song started, i just started weeping in my chair. and i -- >> seth: well, this is a part -- for those who don't know, you originated this part on broadway. >> yes, i did. many years ago, when i was 31 years old. i'm 64, do the math. [ light laughter ] but i was so emotional. it was a piece that so spoke to me and formed my life. and i was very self-conscious that i was going to sob openly in the play, and i made it through the whole thing

amazingerforming an project called sondheim on sondheim. that will be saturday night.rolina to my summer music festival. i have a wonderful educational festival at the brevard music center with 412 five students of high school and college-age. we will be doing a little seven deadly sins. it just goes on. alix: to you ever get nervous anymore? keith: i get anticipatory. obviously something big like this, you get up for it. you are tense, i suppose. nervous? no, i would realize i would be in the wrong business. alix: you were great on stage. keith: thanks for the opportunity to see the astronaut on the fifth. i've never been here on the fifth. [laughter] alix: keith lockhart, conductor of the boston pops. it was a great evening yesterday. i'm excited to see you back tomorrow. jonathan: thank you very much. that does it for us. let's get a check on the markets for you. equities opening lower. down by 2/10 on the dow. from the team here at bloomberg, thank you very much. the coverage continues. "bloomberg markets" is up next. for viewers worldwide, this is bloomberg. ♪ von