Thank you so much for this honor. I wouldn't be standing here without my amazing family, my steadfast friends, and my teacher Edward Sayegh and this role, which has to be one of the greatest written for the stage, musical or otherwise. I am a very, very lucky actor. My deepest thanks to Ira Weitzman, André Bishop, Bernie Gersten, and Lincoln Center Theater, to Elizabeth Spencer for giving us your story, and to Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel for your powerful, life-giving piece. Bartlett Sher, Ted Sperling, and Jonathan Butterell, you are all geniuses and should be cloned so everyone can know the intense pleasure of working with you. Thank you so much for not offering this role to Glenn Close or Cher. Thom Widmann, Lincoln Center crew, especially Alice Ramos and Kimberly Mark and the all-start cast of Piazza, and especially my rock and comfort, Kelli O'Hara. Thank you. And finally, to my acting coach on this project, my ten-year-old son, Thomas Luke, I love you, you are my light in the piazza.