00:00I just want to protect this with everything in me and I think it's a show that deserves to be
00:04heard and so when I heard criticisms I was like I'm absolutely not going to repeat what I did in
00:09the past. I'm going to stand up and respectfully try to give my opinion. I don't want to argue with
00:15someone or try to make them like something that they don't because there are people out there that don't like
00:20Beyonce, which I think is crazy, you know, but when I hear that I'm like there's nothing out there in
00:26the world that every everyone universally likes, you know,
00:29and so I'm okay with that but what I'm not okay with is someone going on social media and declaring
00:36on behalf of everyone who exists on the planet that's black that a musical is not for them, that it
00:41is not for their people because I'm watching in real life every night black people, brown people, white people, Asian
00:49people, old people, young people, queer people, straight people, all types of people coming into this room and last night
00:56on the second row there was this beautiful black lady
00:59lady who was like sobbing and this white gay couple gave her tissues and they were holding hands and I
01:03was like, I wonder how they got here and how they know each other and met them after the show.
01:07They never met before each other that before that night. They were fellowshipping and I have a weird relationship with
01:14religion. But this show people have said feels like a form of church.
