A theater classic that continues to be taken on by top actors and resonates with audiences.

Waiting for Gatto, yes, that's how it's pronounced, mixes high despair and low comedy to raise big questions about, well, the meaning of life.

And now two actors, great friends themselves, are doing their waiting on Broadway.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown gets a look for our arts and culture series,

Canvas.

Who am I to tell my private nightmares to if I can't tell them to you?

Let them remain private.

You know I can't bear that.

There are times when I wonder if it wouldn't be better for us to part.

You wouldn't go far.

Two men, Estragon called Go-Go and Vladimir or Didi, hearing, laughing, talking, waiting for someone

they don't know.

The two men playing them, Hianu Reeves and Alex Winter.

And why are they here?

What did I know? I just answered the universe who said you should

do waiting for Goddard with Alex. And I was like, you're right. Okay, I'll ask him.

And he said, absolutely, yeah, but it's a mountain. Let's go climb the mountain.

That mountain waiting for Godot, or Godot, as they've chosen to pronounce it in

this production, by Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. Written and first performed

in the 1950s, it's still raising deep issues of human existence, through a mix of pain and suffering,

along with broad comedy. Which of you smell so bad?

He has stinking breath and I have stinking feet.

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