Christian Identity preacher Wesley Swift, whose racist teachings included that Adam and Eve were white, that nonwhites have no souls, and that Jews were the offspring of Satan. Before 1967 ended, the White Knights began bombing Jewish homes and synagogues.

No one,” Ben noted, “would have known about James Chaney if he had been by himself.

Nothing is quite so dangerous as a religious fanatic who thinks he’s doing the Lord’s will.

I just didn't have the heart to tell him it was me.

I love the story. It's so positive, especially for young girls to believe in themselves. And it's fun to root for a leading character you care about.

It's always a disruption when you change this.

It's a live show with 17 pieces, and we're hoping to get it up somewhere in some theatre with special guests. That's still in the works. . . It's concertish right now, but we're developing it. It's a 17-piece big band, so you don't want to get in the way of those incredible musicians. I'm doing it up here, in my town, Richfield, Connecticut, so we'll see. It's at the beginning stages.

It was crazy. Over three weeks of constant noise. It got on our nerves.

The ones that I am now packing we don't have all the supplies in there, so I'm checking the ones that we don't have and we'll have to replenish those.

The show is structured to get the audience back into the story after intermission. That takes about 10 minutes -- any show has a little fat it can get rid of, and we found most of ours after the intermission.