He added when he gets back to the classroom in Toronto, he's going to tell his students about the experience. "I'm going to tell them that when I went on stage, it was completely surreal," he said. "This is a project that reflects a lifetime's worth of work for me and for everyone involved." "You just keep putting in the work and you keep believing in the arts. You keep believing in the process and the craft and and it can lead to amazing things."