That was getting close to happening when Julie Harris had a stroke, and then my mother got ill and eventually died of lung cancer.

I called in a lot of favors.

When we did it in New York, it wasn't quite ready yet. But basically it gave us a stronger visibility in New York and really put the piece out there to a number of people.

I realized I had this incredibly rich legacy of Broadway and Hollywood memorabilia and I had to do something with it. My mother was not a household name but everybody she knew and worked with was one.