For over twenty years audiences only saw him do that, you know he was in Hair in two thousand and nine. He was nominated for a Tony Award, he won an Olivier Award for Book of Mormon in London, Hello Dolly we just saw him perform and Twenty Seventeen he won a Tony Award, so it’s a really devastating and heartbreaking loss, this morning I know some of the biggest names on Broadway Lin Manuel Miranda Tibet Midler are coming out now to pay tribute to him. How they’re talking about their memories of him, people who knew him, who worked with him, it’s absolutely a great question, I’m glad you brought it up, of course he’ll be remembered for his immense talent on stage. But off stage he’ll be remembered for his humility and generosity, there was a poet Daniel J Watts who wrote something about him yesterday. He said if you’ve ever seen him you’d immediately understand.
How lame they were filmed empty kind generous talented one of the things I heard yesterday that I want to share very quickly. When he was in she loves me. He shared the stage with an eighteen year old girl who had a problem with him Mrs. High school prom invited him to the basement of the theater with her. The entire cast and crew just like what kind of person he was. His last words to the bench passing we are not alive is one thing I have learned so far during this time that now never living again is not an option if you are alive.