"Oh, I love musicals!" And that took them back down the rabbit hole with shared love of fiction, that special place you can always escape to because nothing from the outside world can get to you there.

"I haven't really been to any in a while," she says with a smile, once they've gotten done fangirling about 'Into the Woods'. "There was a lovely children's play I saw about a year and a half ago, a charity benefit. I happened to stop in--really needed to see it that day." Or she'd have gone somewhere far worse.