These guys, huge Telemundo stars, were on tour across the US and the producers flew me to Los Angeles to see them in the huge Wiltern theatre. The sold out show was mostly in spanish and the audience went insane for these guys, often standing on their seats yelling punchlines back at the stage. It was really thrilling and I definitely wanted to be a part of it.

So it's coming to broadway and the show adds a director and a female performer and someone makes these guys write some new darker pieces, because "that's what you do for broadway". And the show got so screwed up by the time it opened.

The director was going crazy rehearsing and repeating parts of the show in preview rehearsals so he left town early. And when I say it drove him crazy to repeat things in rehearsal he'd yell into the air, "I can't stand repeating this over and over." When we filmed Passing Strange and put in a few small changes, Spike Lee was the exact same, "repeating this over and over is driving me insaaaaane. I can't stand this." Some movie people lose their minds with fine tuning and drilling stage work. It's not a knock on Spike or Cheech, both remarkably talented artists. It's just not what they do, or want to do.

After the director left town the performers tried to move the show back to what it was on tour but there was too much to unravel and the new show was not so great and it couldn't find an audience. They should have just performed what they were touring with. It was so much better and really engaging.

Let that be a lesson.