Scott Bakula has just finished a noon student matinee. The audience included fidgety fourth graders (aged nine or 10). “They can be very challenging and this piece I wouldn’t say is necessarily kid friendly,” he says by phone. “But they did pretty well.”
Then he reflects: “You always know that in the midst of that group of kids, regardless of how some are not great at behaving and sitting – and I don’t blame them necessarily – a show strikes a chord in some children. That’s all you need. That gets you through it. You know there are kids that are glued to it and you do the work for them.”
