Interesting, they communicate with an awful lot of audience members. Lots of people are touched by Last 5 years, Marie Christine, and Light. They do plenty of communicating. It's the subject matter that I think people hesitate to give over to. That and an angular use of harmony.
Penguin, that was a response to jose's question about judging the two shows from the recordings.
I can certainly agree that LITP is a musical -- a chamber musical, if you will. A beautiful musical -- I left that musical with tears in my eyes. And I don't cry -- ever. So that was a big deal.