"I'm looking up at the street and I'm seeing the sign for The Lion King, and I'm standing here and I'm thinking, `I had never thought in a million years I'd ever be standing in Broadway and talking about something I'd written for the stage," the normally grumpy John said.
"It's a triumph over adversity. It's something beautiful coming out of something tragic," John says about the show, which has had already had successful runs in London and Sydney, Australia.
It's also about the triumph of a 61-year-old man being able to appear in public in front of hundreds of people in a tutu and still get out of bed in the morning.
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