i decided i would like to adapt the velveteen rabbit.d you, i had never read it as a child but heard it as a mother. my first time was a bedtime story recording. it was through that that i defined the theme and really determined how i was going to produce the story. is it true listening to it. when i made the dance i watched my son, since i have been taking him to live performances since he was 6 years old. he loved it when he saw his peers or when someone was reading to him or he heard language. early when the bunny first comes out they go, ah, the rabbit. i think talking, flying, something they can relate to. and the adults love nana. nan na is the main adult figure in the show. the fairy is played by the same person. fair is very much like the love for your first child. pure love. nature is a beautiful thing. all wild rabbits come from nature. i think nature is mysterious, beautiful, not something our kids get very much these days. there's fantastical spectacle because of computers and film. i think in live performance, in a way being

i like people to think -- yeah, it just makes me see to see those dusty boxes like "the velveteen rabbitt sometimes you can't get things. sometimes they're going to be there. >> jimmy: you're shooting "suburgatory" here in los angeles but live in brooklyn. >> i do. >> jimmy: and your family lives in brooklyn too. your husband and your kids. >> yes. >> jimmy: and how does that work out exactly? >> how do they live there? >> jimmy: how do you handle it? >> so, i commute. i do have a long commute so i come here and i work on "suburgatory" and i work, work, work then i go home and i enjoy the views of the brooklyn bridge and i'm nice to my children and then if i'm on the plane i have my quiet time. >> jimmy: i see, okay, so you go back every weekend? >> it's not organized like that cleanly because of tv but whenever i can i go home. >> jimmy: do they come out here. >> they came in the summertime but they have a life. i stay with my friend tony so i have my husband, 16 years and next -- week after next and -- is my microphone off? >> jimmy: no, it's on. >> oh, that's the magical sound. >> jim