“As much as I was doing it for seven weeks, they were doing it for 52 weeks,” he said. “This was their life from 12 to 22. And you would watch it from the sidelines at times and throw the odd lifeline in because there was so little time for that. It’s only in recent years that I’ve managed to sit down in a cafe with Daniel in New York. He was at a theater, and I was at another. Huge pride to go to see him… How dare he be dancing as well as the New York dancers. He worked at it.”