they're all upstairs waiting for you. all right, see you later. see you now. and it was around this time that steven spielberg... yes. ..saw the show, and your life changed again. yeah. when did you first meet him? when he said, "i can't come to see your show because i'm "here in la. "are you coming back to la at any point? "would you mind letting me see the show?" and i was like, "sure," cos i wanted to be in, you know, raiders of the lost ark and, you know, et, if it came back. so i said, "sure!" and so, i was on my way back to berkeley, california, and i stopped and he said, "i've just built the stage "here at amblin" — which was his company — and, "would you mind doing the show here?" i was like, "sure!" he says, "i want to talk to you. "i'm making a movie." now, during all of this — before everything, before i went to broadway — i had listened to a reading of the color purple on npr. and my daughter and i were in