So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

For the parents, it is a way to be young physically and emotionally for awhile and not have to deal with the troubles of the world.

They are sweating as much as anyone onstage. Their focus has to be that of somebody working on the balance beam. We're all three in sync. We have to feel what the other is doing. One lifts me up, the other, side to side. They're like puppeteers almost.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show.