of the way. he, with his writing partners bruce sussman, he s been there for the previews. as you saw in the clip, there for rehearsals. that s one thing i learned about our musical hero, john, barry manilow, is that he does not rest on his laurels. whether it was this musical or his show, which is record-breaking in las vegas, he s there every single day, working on the lighting, working on the choreography, working on the arrangements still of the music that in this case, in the case of the musical, he began to write 25 years ago. the pop songs, of course, he wrote five decades ago. so interesting, what i take from some of the clips i ve seen of your show also it hasn t been easy to be barry manilow. i used to carry, this is true, i used to carry a quote from barry manilow in my wallet, no one was more surprised than me to find out i wasn t hip. basically it was barry manilow admitting when people told him