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During the investigation you were leading, did crowdstrike ever send any of the dncs computer hardware to ukraine . No, that is insane, and this is not within the realm of reality. No snapping fingers, no fire escape balcony, nope, this is not your parents west side story. Everything scares me about this. Its a huge challenge. Ladies, lady, ladies and, of course, everyone has an expectation. 60 minutes spent the last four months behind the scenes as this epic american production gets set to open on broadway. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking cbs money watch sponsored by lincoln financial, helping you create a secure financial future. Good evening. Financial markets are closed tomorrow for president s day. Investors are watching coronavirus developments with the nasdaq and s p at alltime high, and with well know tuesday if a shortened Holiday Shopping season squeezed walmarts earnings. 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Raging fires have devastated the continent, scorching a reported 27 million acres and killing 33 people. Bush fires are a part of life in australia and theyre often deadly. But the scale of these fires is unprecedented. Areas across multiple states have ignited. Australian cities have suffocated in smoke, on some days giving residents te worst air quality in the world. And according to one estimate, a billion animals have been killed. Scientists say Climate Change is transforming australias environment making it hotter and drier and exposing it to longer, more intense fire seasons. The fires started unusually early in september, and when we visited the continent this month, we found that australia is still burning. The fires have devoured forests like rivers of lava, smoke blanketing the landscape, the skies turning marmalade in the middle of the day. Its been a black summer down under, and its not over yet. It sometimes feels as if australia is at war, fighting against insatiable flames that are fueled by record heat, high winds and a country parched by drought, and this is whats been left behind in towns like cobargo, five hours south of sydney, where marilyn mills was trapped in her burning house. So the fire came up through here, is that right . Marilyn mills it started coming up here, just straight and i thought, im just gonna burn to death. Williams it sounds as if you were convinced that you were going to die. Mills and i thought, just die. Williams you wanted to die at that point. Mills yeah, if i could have killed myself, i would have done it in a second rather than burn to death. It was so hot. Oh my god williams 60 miles away, on the coast, the scenes on new years eve were like a modern day dunkirk. The fires forced people to retreat to the beaches, as flying embers gusted across the sand. Greg mullins they actually had to jump into the ocean to escape. The fires burnt right to the edge. Williams have you ever seen that before, people having to shelter on, on the beach and in the water . Mullins on a massive scale, over hundreds of miles in, in multiple communities, no. Thats just unprecedented. Williams greg mullins was there, an experienced fire captain battling towering flames. Mullins the wind was howling. When the fire came through, that sounded like a 747 jet landing. So the sounds, the sights, it was just, it was apocalyptic. I dont like this. Out, out, out, out. Williams mullins says hed never seen a blaze move that quickly. Mullins at one stage, i saw kangaroos come out of the bush on fire, and then just drop dead on the roadway. And ive never, ever seen that before. Because theyre fast animals. They know where to go. Williams this time lapse video from a dash cam shows how firefighters were forced to scramble in the face of rapidly approaching flames. In less than two minutes the fire consumed anything that didnt make it out. Hundreds of bush fires have burned for weeks on end, some of them merging into mega fires, and firefighters on the front line say nature has gone awry. Mullins i saw fire behavior i didnt expect. And what i learned later was that the fire had created its own weather system. Williams what do you mean the fire had created its own weather system . Mullins big fires can form storm clouds, which then you have an inrush of air at the bottom, you have downbursts, just like a normal thunderstorm. You have lightning that can start fires 20, 25 miles away. And firefighters can lose their lives. So one night, an eightton fire truck was picked up by a downburst and put on its roof injured the rest of them. Williams to drop fire retardant, australia is relying on borrowed flying tankers from north america. One of the planes went down in smokey conditions last month, killing three american firefighters on board. Mullins were so indebted to those people. And every firefighter felt it. Three of our brothers, albeit from the u. S. , lost their lives trying to help us. Williams australias firefighters are nearly all volunteers courageous, but exhausted. Theyre affectionately known as firies and we saw them protecting suburban homes. This fire is burning out of control and its just 25 miles from canberra, australias capital city. And what makes this even more dangerous are the conditions. Its windy today, its bone dry and its nearly 110 degrees. And its the changing climate that is at the heart of the problem, according to scientists. Joelle gergis 2019 was the hottest and the driest year in australias history. So we actually saw temperature records be broken all over the country. Williams Joelle Gergis is a climate scientist at the Australian National university and is a lead author of an upcoming United Nations report on Climate Change. Gergis this is the type of summer you might not have expected til the middle of the century based on past projections. So i think this is really redefining what it means to actually be living through a period of rapid Climate Change. Williams so youre saying you would have expected this kind of scenario that we saw this summer to happen in 2050 . Gergis yeah, potentially. Middle of the century. Williams are you shocked . Gergis of course im shocked. Williams gergis says australia is more vulnerable to Climate Change than any other developed nation, in part because its the driest inhabited continent. When it comes to Climate Change is australia a bellweather for the rest of the world . Has beker i think this summer most australians. And myself as, as a climate scientist, seeing the extreme level of heat and the bush fires and the Drought Conditions playing out so catastrophically has been, i think, a wakeup call to the world. Malcolm turnbull we have been mugged by the reality of Climate Change in this summer. Williams Malcolm Turnbull is a political conservative who served as australias Prime Minister up until august of 2018. Turnbull this is Climate Change in the raw. This is what we have been told to expect for years. Williams when you were Prime Minister, were you warned that the fires were getting worse . Turnbull well, of course. Everyone has known this. Weve been warned by the climate scientists. Everyone has been aware of this except for those who, well, the Climate Change deniers are aware of it, but they choose to deny reality. Its been a challenging time. Williams turnbull was bounced out of office by the right wing of his own party largely over his support for cutting carbon emissions. Turnbull the right wing climate deniers treat an issue of science and physics and fact as though it was a question of ideology, and their conduct is not just idiotic. It is downright dangerous. Dangerous for us here in australia and around the world. Williams youre talking about people in your own party. Turnbull of course i am. Yeah. Absolutely. Williams dangerous and idiotic. Turnbull well, of course it is dangerous and idiotic not to be taking the strongest action to reduce your Greenhouse Gas emissions. Williams turnbull was replaced by Scott Morrison, who has minimized Climate Change. He famously stood up in parliament in 2017 and taunted his opponents with a lump of coal. Scott morrison this is coal. Dont be afraid, dont be scared. Its coal. Williams morrison has prioritized protecting australias mining industry. Coal is the countrys second largest export, and members of the current government argue its not australias responsibility to act on Climate Change since the country only produces about 1 of global emissions. Isnt there some truth in that . Turnbull well williams i mean, if, if the u. S. Doesnt act, if china and india dont act on emissions, it doesnt matter very much. Turnbull well, if we williams what australia does turnbull well, if we dont act, if we dont act, a wealthy advanced economy facing the harsh reality of Climate Change, if we dont act and show leadership, why would anyone else act . Williams with his country on fire, the current Prime Minister Scott Morrison took his family on a hawaiian vacation. When he returned home, he was given a Cold Shoulder as he tried to comfort victims in the fire zones. He was heckled by seething residents. Youre an idiot, mate, you really are. Williams including in the hardhit town of cobargo where marilyn mills lives a lot of people in cobargo are angry with the Prime Minister. Do you share those feelings . Mills well, he didnt light the fire. Like, what can he do . Hes just a bloke with a whole bunch of people under him and theyre all idiots. laughs williams for you, it sounds like its the entire government that youre angry with. Mills well, they need to have a look at what, what threatens australia. Fire threatens australia. Thats our big thing, fire. Fire, drought, all those sorts of things, thats what they need to focus on. Williams greg mullins says he and 22 former fire and Emergency Service chiefs from all over australia wrote to Prime Minister morrison last april warning him of a looming catastrophe and requesting more resources to fight bush fires. And what was the response . Mullins ah, that he was too busy to meet with us. Williams he refused to meet with you. Mullins point blank. Told us to buzz off basically. Williams why . Mullins weve been told by senior Public Servants in canberra that because we uttered two horrible words, Climate Change, we were discounted as being activists, and we would not get a meeting at any stage with the Prime Minister. Williams we wanted to interview the Prime Minister about the devastating fires and their connection with Climate Change but he declined our request, as did other members of his government. Scott morrison has admitted that he made mistakes in his handling of this crisis. But what he has not done is make any change to reduce this countrys carbon emissions. Climate scientist Joelle Gergis says the future of australia hangs in the balance. Are the australian people being betrayed by their politicians . Gergis at this moment i think it is really reckless and potentially criminal because we know enough. We actually know enough about the science now. I think the science is crystal clear. And i think the impacts are now playing out now. Remember that australia is actually an extraordinary continent. We have the highest level of plants and animals that are found here and nowhere else on earth. Williams australias most iconic animals koalas and kangaroos have fared terribly, innocent victims of the fires. One scientist estimates at least a billion animals have died. We went to kangaroo island, off australias southern coast, where tens of thousands of koalas are believed to have been killed. 48 of the island has burned. Surviving koalas have been brought to a makeshift care center the living room of a family that runs a wildlife park. The baby koalas, some only months old, receive special attention. Many koalas were singed on their paws and arrived dehydrated. A mash unit has been set up to sedate them and treat their wounds so they may one day return to their habitat or whats left of it. Feeding grounds have been reduced to char. And just before we left the island, we came across this hungry kangaroo, scouring the ashes for something to eat. In the last two weeks its fnally rained, giving everyone some respite, and hope that this most brutal season of fires may be coming to an end. But the scars remain. In what used to be pristine wilderness ringing with birdsong and brimming with wildlife, there is silence. The music of the forest, in the middle of the australian summer, is gone. ticking australias bushfires hit close to home for the 60 minutes team who reported this story. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com, sponsored by pfizer. Xeljanz xr, a oncedaily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. Xeljanz ane even without methotrexate. Mage, xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections like tb; dont start xeljanz if you have an infection. Taking a higher than recommended dose of xeljanz for ra can increase risk of death. 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Last july, President Trump made the phone call to ukraine that led to impeachment. He asked the president of ukraine to investigate a mysterious Democratic National committee computer server that mr. Trump said was hidden in ukraine. We have found that odd request is a story that has grown over the years and was influenced by moscow. You may have wondered how the president was impeached over ukraine of all places. The answer is in the story of the mystery server a reminder that the u. S. And russia have been on opposite sides of a war in ukraine since russias invasion in 2014. Bill taylor ukraines security is important to our security, and the reason i believe that is that ukraine is on the frontline. Pelley few people understand whats at stake as well as ambassador bill taylor. He led the u. S. Embassy in ukraine as the Trump Administration withheld military aid while pressing for investigations of democrats. Taylor it was illogical, it could not be explained, it was crazy. Pelley taylors testimony carried the weight of his resume; west point, 101st airborne in vietnam, 33 years as a diplomat, and an expert on ukraine. Taylor the russian are fighting a hybrid war against ukraine, but its not just about ukraine, they are fighting a hybrid war against europe and against the united states. Pelley the war that the russians are fighting in ukraine, we have a stake in . Taylor we have a stake in, but its not just the military war. Hybrid war is more than tanks and soldiers. Hybrid war is information war, its cyber war, its economic war, its attacks on elections and as we know they have attacked our elections. Pelley the russian attack on the 2016 election included hacking the computers of the Democratic National committee. U. S. Intelligence agencies found, the russian government aspired to help president elect trumps election chances when possible by discrediting secretary clinton. Former Deputy National Intelligence Officer and c. I. A. Russia analyst, andrea kendalltaylor worked on that report. Andrea kendelltaylor the report itself was based on a large body of evidence that demonstrated not only what russia was doing, but also its intent. And its based on a number of different sources, collected human intelligence, technical intelligence. Pelley you seem to be saying that the evidence is convincing. That this isnt a close call. Kendelltaylor thats absolutely right. If you read the intelligence report, its the consensus view of three intelligence agencies; c. I. A. , n. S. A. And the f. B. I. Pelley the same conclusion was reached by the republican led Senate Select committee on intelligence. The committees report on russian interference was unanimously approved by all of its democratic and republican members. Democrat mark warner is vice chairman. Mark warner the russian project was a top down, governmentrun covert operation that hacked into the d. N. C. And individuals personal emails, and weaponized that information to release it at the most important times. Pelley but the idea that the Trump Campaign was helped by russia, even unwittingly, was a unanimous judgment mr. Trump would not accept. Donald trump and by the way folks just in case youre like, curious, no, russia did not help me okay . Russia . I call it the russian hoax. Pelley mr. Trump began a campaign to discredit the intelligence communitys conclusions. He tweeted, so how and why are they so sure about hacking if they never even requested an examination of the computer servers . In mr. Trumps telling, the f. B. I. Failed to look for evidence on the democrats computer network. The story of the mystery server was born. You dealt directly with the f. B. I. . Robert johnston i did. Yeah, sure. Pelley Robert Johnston was an investigator of the d. N. C. Hack for crowdstrike, a leading Cyber Security company hired by the democrats. He told us the f. B. I. Didnt physically examine the d. N. C. Servers because crowdstrike gave the bureau copies of the data from the servers. Johnston if there is a server or a Computer System of any kind thats involved in the incident you can take an exact bit for bit digital copy of whats on that system. Now that digital copy is just as good as having the real thing. Pelley as far as you know, the f. B. I. Got what it needed and what it wanted . Johnston exactly, and evidence of that is you dont hear the f. B. I. Complaining. Pelley hes right. A former senior government official, familiar with the investigation, told us what the f. B. I. Would have preferred to work alongside crowdstrikes investigators, but the Democratic National committee decided to give the bureau digital copies of its servers instead. The official told us this was acceptable, in fact even typical in f. B. I. Investigations. The f. B. I. Used the data to help indict 12 russian intelligence agents for hacking the d. N. C. But mr. Trumps tweets persisted. Why did the d. N. C. Refuse to turn over its server to the f. B. I. And where are hidden and smashed d. N. C. Servers . There were more than 140 servers in the democrats network. But mr. Trump created an image of a single box of incriminating information. Trump where is the server . I want to know, where is the server . And what is the server saying . With that being said, all i can do is ask the question. My people came to me dan coats came to me and some others they said they think its russia. I have president putin; he just said its not russia. I will say this i dont see any reason why it would be, but i really do want to see the server. Pelley that statement, letting russia off the hook, forced President Trump to issue a retraction the next day. Through all of this, Vladimir Putin wasnt just standing idly by. He was working to shift blame away from russia. Kendalltaylor what we can see is that russia did what russia does, and that is piling on. They amplify those narratives in ways that then advance russias own interests. Pelley they look for conspiracy theories that are already out there . Kendelltaylor theyre picking up on elements or narratives that already exist in a society and amplifying those narratives that advance russian interests. Pelley the interest of putin was to drive a wedge between his enemy, ukraine, and ukraines most important ally, the united states. Kendalltaylor a successful, prosperous, westernoriented ukraine provides a direct threat to putins hold on power. He cant have a successful ukraine on his southern border, because then it demonstrates to russians what is possible. Pelley two weeks after mr. Trinauguratipu said, inhinews conference, it was not russia that helped donald trump, but ukraine that helped Hillary Clinton. Russian media and u. S. Conspiracy websites began to spin suspicion of ukraine. Ultimately, those rumors appealed to mr. Trumps private lawyer, rudy giuliani, who was working to discredit the investigations of russian meddling in 2016. Taylor and there were concerns that there was another game being played, another channel that mr. Giuliani was involved in. Pelley as head of the u. S. Embassy in ukraine, bill taylor was frustrated that giuliani was agitating for investigations that were never official u. S. Policy. Did anyone at the state department ever direct you to investigate whether there was a server in ukraine . Taylor no. Pelley why not . Taylor no one took it seriously. Pelley no one perhaps, except the president. In 2017, for the first time, he added ukraine to the story of the server. In an interview he said, why wouldnt Hillary Clinton allow the f. B. I. To see the server . They brought in another company that i hear is ukrainianbased. Crowdstrike . The reporter asked. Thats what i heard. I heard its owned by a very rich ukrainian. The securities and exchange commission, shows that crowdstrike is incorporated in delaware and based in california. Its largest shareholders are american Venture Capital firms. Over the years crowdstrike has been hired by both the democratic and republican parties. Trump so, the server, they say, is held by a Company Whose primary ownership individual is from ukraine. Id like to see the server. Pelley are there any links, to your knowledge, between crowdstrike and anyone in ukraine . Taylor not to my knowledge. Pelley was this something that the embassy was concerned about . Taylor no. Pelley during the investigation you were leading, did crowdstrike ever send any of the d. N. C. s computer hardware to ukraine . Johnston no. That that is that is insane. That is not within the realm of reality. Pelley last july, reality suffered a final blow. The story mr. Trump first adopted as a server the f. B. I. Was blocked from seeing, and then became the server investigated by a ukrainian company, finally morphed into the server hidden in ukraine. In the call, after the ukrainian president asked for antitank missiles to defend himself from russia, mr. Trump replied, i would like you to do us a favor though. They say crowdstrike. I guess you have one of your wealthy people. The server, they say ukraine has it. This was the first favor mr. Trump asked for even before his request that ukraine also investigate the son of Vice President biden. This past november, mr. Trump spoke, by phone, to fox and friends. Trump they gave the server to crowdstrike or whatever its called which is a Company Owned by a very wealthy ukrainian and i still want to see that server you know the f. B. I. s never gotten that server. Thats a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a ukrainian company, why . Are you sure they did that . Are you sure they gave it to ukraine . Trump well, thats what the word is. Pelley the word, that ukraine was involved, was amplified by the president s defenders in the impeachment inquiry. They pointed to a 2016 opinion article and social media posts, written by ukrainians, that were critical of mr. Trump as though they were equivalent to russias Covert Campaign targeting u. S. Computer networks, voting systems and social media. Fiona hill, mr. Trumps former senior director for russia on the National Security council, warned the committee. Fiona hill some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its Security Services did not conduct a campaign against our country, and that, perhaps, somehow, for some reason, ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the russian Security Services themselves. Pelley what are the chances that this whispering campaign about a Democratic National committee server in ukraine is actually a russian intelligence operation, a russian dis Information Operation . Taylor the russians are very good at that. Its these fake stories that they have propagated. And thats what they do. They do it pretty well. We have to be on guard against that. Pelley from Vladimir Putins perspective it worked. Last november, as impeachment played out and americas next election season was underway, he said, at this forum, thank god no one is accusing us of interfering in the u. S. Elections anymore; now theyre accusing ukraine. We reached out to the white house multiple times on this story, but they did not respond. ticking nervously ready . Ok, ready sweetie . Nice, you ready to go again . Are you ready, dad . Im ready. Imagine if your Life Insurance could help you live for today and safeguard tomorrow, so youre ready for anything. 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Im tom steyer and i approve this message. ticking whitaker when the musical west side story opened on broadway in 1957, it caused a sensation with the innovative fusion of dance, music and theater a reimagining of Shakespeares Romeo and juliet, tony and maria are the starcrossed lovers. Rival new york city street gangs, the jets and the sharks, take the roles of the montagues in four daysa new team of creative artists will open r the iconic musical ever to hit broadway. We were given unprecedented, behindthescenes access to see the making of this more than 15 million production. Theres no intermission. Its stripped down, fast and gritty a west side story for the 21st century. We started rolling our cameras early in october in a midmanhattan dance studio. Whitaker the first notes, of Leonard Bernsteins music and Stephen Sondheims lyrics stirred treasured memories. I will know right away. As soon as it shows whitaker but ivo van hove, a Tony Award Winning director, known for his cuttingedge productions, promised something new a more raw and raging west side story. A man little man whitaker its van hoves first broadway musical. Updating this american masterpiece was his idea. The belgian director says the story is universal. Jumping into this american classic, there must be things about this that just scare you. Ivo van hove everything laughs scares me about this. It its a huge challenge, because everything has to be on the highest level, the singing, the dancing, and the acting. And of course everybody has an expectation. Anne teresa de keersmaeker and push. Whitaker the songs and Arthur Laurents story are the same, but the dancing. All new. De keersmaeker okay, one more time. Whitaker van hove tapped choreographer anne teresa de keersmaeker, his friend and fellow belgian, to design more contemporary, street influenced movement. In america you forget im in america de keersmaeker can the ladies, could you that think theres a way you be closer to the guys . Lets try once not to have unified steps. On the first curve you dont gonna come into a straight line. Whitaker this is your first broadway production. De keersmaeker yes, yes. And whitaker this is a different animal. De keersmaeker would you call it an animal . laughs what kind of animal . A lion a serpent . A dragon . laughs maybe a dragon. I dont whitaker is that what it feels like sometimes . De keersmaeker its huge. Its a lot of people. Its is a lot at stake. And its its teamwork. You know, with clear leaders being ivo and i. Ivo, ivo, tell me whats the situation. Whitaker their young cast reflects america today. In this version the jets are not all white. And the sharks are not just puerto ricans. Theyre recent latino immigrants. 33 of the 50 cast members are making their broadway debuts. Puerto rico is in america van hove its not easy to sing these songs. You have to dance at the same time. Also laughs time you have to be able to act. So thats a very difficult thing when youre very young and ha and when you dont have a lot of experience. The sharks will be here. Whitaker van hove is animated, decisive; de keersmaeker calls herself a patient collaborator. De keersmaeker so i dont need a military line like this. I dont want to organize it like an army. Im not a general im not like, cha, cha, cha, chack. We start to shape it together with the dancers. Whitaker her style is vastly different from the original, balletic dancing of director, choreographer Jerome Robbins, immortalized in the 1961 movie. So how do you change Something Like america, the way she throws the dress around . De keersmaeker those dresses are very beautiful. They really enlarge the movement, but thats not the way people young people dance these days. Whitaker so thats thats out . De keersmaeker thats thats out. Van hove no snapping of the fingers snapping fingers whitaker no snapping of the fingers van hove no, because its not in the score. Its an invention of Jerome Robbins and we should respect that, you know . You can be inspired by other people, but not stealing from them, i think. Whitaker this was their vision. After five weeks in the rehearsal hall, the last run through before moving to the theater. Cast and crew to the stage please, please. Whitaker two days later on november 18, the production went up town. To the broadway theatre. We made it. Here we are. cheers and applause whitaker the scenery is an enormous, black wall that opens up to reveal two hidden sets. Central to van hoves reimagining cameras everywhere, 25 of them, projecting images onto the wall designed to intensify the action. Its video on a scale broadway has never seen. De keersmaeker i would like sort of curve it. Whitaker de keersmaeker had to scale up her dancers movements to fit the bigger space and giant images. Van hove videowise we have now to explore what we do there. Whitaker veteran producer scott rudin is the money and power behind this production. So when the audience walks in, thats what theyre going to see . Scott rudin thats it. Thats thats west side story. Its a black box, fully exposed, guts and all. Its not west side story of 1957. Its just not that. Whitaker its huge. Are you concerned at all that that video image will overwhelm your actors on stage . Rudin i think were managing our way into it. There are places where i think it still does slightly overwhelm, or ki kind of dwarf the actors, and some places where its incredibly exciting that its there. But its been a fascinating toolkit to play with. Shereen pimentel it is off stage. Whitaker isaac powell and Shereen Pimentel play the doomed lovers, tony and maria. They took us to what they call a secret set. Four flights up above the stage, out of sight of the audience. Pimentel they have a camera set up right here in what was once a dressing room, now is marias bedroom. Theres a camera set up in the bedroom. Whitaker so in the play pimentel yes. Whitaker you will be running up and down the stairs to come to your room . Pimentel yep. Whitaker so is this a theater, or a movie set . Isaac powell why does it have to be either . Pimentel exactly. Powell its both. Pimentel its its happening in real time. Whitaker seamlessly . Powell sometimes. Of course there are bound to be bumps, and and kinks that need to be ironed out. Van hove i saw him now into his frame. Whitaker we saw some of those kinks the first time in the theater van hove rehearsed the bedroom scene when maria learns tony has killed her brother. It was like directing a movie. He blocked it with the actors and cameras, then went down to the theatre to watch it unfold on the video wall. Van hove i see him again. But this goes wrong. No, uh, no. She should not stand there. Its out of focus, out of focus, guys. This is so many mistakes. Yeah, i give you a moment, but i was there already explaining five times. You know, its not that difficult. Whitaker we were here one day when you were rehearsing the bedroom scene upstairs. The camera was out of focus, the actors were out of position, you were getting angry. You at one point said everything is wrong. So much of this is wrong. Did you ever have any questions through that about the use of the video like that . Van hove no, no, no, no. Whitaker never . It never van hove no, no. Whitaker it never made you have doubt . Van hove no, the challenges were high. And of course you know that it will be a journey. You know, it took us a while to bring all the elements, you know, in a perfect balance. So, no, its a normal process, in this case a very intense one. Come on. Bang. Wheres the rain . Whitaker Something Else they had to fix the rain. A deluge that soaks the actors and sometimes musicians in the orchestra pit. Van hove lets go on. Whitaker the calm in the middle of the storm ivo van hove. You take notes on everything. The next day you go up and you have production meetings with the with the crew, and you you go work with the actors. I mean, this seems like a grueling process van hove i i love that. I feel like a fish in the ocean, you know . And and the ocean is a dangerous place to be sometimes, you know, but also great place to be. I love the sometimes violent, but always the the high energy of a rehearsal process. Whitaker as the show evolved, we saw as much drama offstage as on. Two latin dance consultants were brought in to add more authenticity and broadway flair to de keersmaekers choreography. De keersmaeker i dont like when they start to fuzzle with your material. Whitaker is that what they were doing . Fuzzling with your material . De keersmaeker well, there is a certain codified language in broadway. You know, how a number has to end, how you have to build tension, you know . And its true. I dont have so much experience about that. I think finally it turned out well. But i would be lying if i say that it went, like, smoothly like this, you know . Whitaker it seemed the show was snake bit. Isaac powell, tony, injured his knee and had to take a month off. That delayed Opening Night by two weeks. Veteran actor, ben cook, who played riff, the leader of the jets, dislocated his shoulder and had to leave the show six weeks before opening, giving 22 yearold cast mate, dharon jones, a newcomer to broadway, the break of a lifetime. Then protests erupted over amar ramasar, a dancer with the new York City Ballet who plays the leader of the sharks. Hes been named in a civil suit alleging he participated in an exchange of explicit pictures of female dancers, which he contests. Ramasar was initially fired by the new York City Ballet. Rudin the arbitrator found that there had been no firing offense. He got reinstated. I dont excuse it. I think what he did was really stupid. I mean, am i supposed to replace him in the show . Im not going to do that. Gee, officer krupke. Whitaker after 19 weeks, the performances have been polished, the video finetuned, the dancing distinct. Theyre ready, after all the blood, sweat and tears. De keersmaeker its a bit like a battlefield, you know . Its a battlefield. And you have to behave like a general. Whitaker you told us originally that you are not a general. De keersmaeker yeah. I know. Im not a general. But i am a dancer. So, i mean, im flexible. Ive patience. In italian, they say hai voluto la bicicletta. They say you wanted the bicycle. So now you have to. Whitaker peddle. De keersmaeker you have to peddle, you know . I made a choice of doing this. I knew it was not going to be easy. So hai voluto la bicicletta. laughs yeah, now peddle. 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