I like Morrie a lot. Like him, I'm a teacher and I'm also Jewish. For some in the academic world, sociology is not considered to be a rigorous science. That may be true, but Morrie must have been a very charismatic guy even if he wasn't the deepest of thinkers. The genius of his insights and how he refined the things he learned in life and passed them along are really what this story is all about.

They're right on you, and when you're traveling in a van, you can hide a lot of stuff in it...and they were serious about it.

The audience comes away with experiencing everything from comedy to tears as these scenes deliver the story of two very different people who learn they also have a lot in common.

He said by telephone from Florida, since the play is ''dealing with death and dissolution. But it was the completeness of the role that attracted me.