From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

I was lucky enough to have seen this show up here at La Jolla Playhouse a few years back and

to see a show about conversation of the self, between the self, the selves, and a romantic

comedy and an experimental musical and a musical that plays with identity.

We could be talking about Frozen or we could be talking about Avenue Q.

We could talk about anything done by my guest, Kristen and Robert Lopez. Thank you guys so much for being here. The show, the TV version of Up Here is now on Hulu. And I have to tell

you, one of my favorite things was the Christmas Prayer song. Now of the lines, I hope your Christmas

sucks as much as mine, but there's also a line

in the song that perfectly describes the characters, as played by May Whitman and

Carlos Valdez, when they sing, I never plan ahead.

I mean, that song so perfectly describes the two of them, doesn't it?

I mean, do any of us?

Can any of us plan ahead for anything?

Some people do, I hear. If you guys can

for the audience, tell them what the show's about. This show was always about ordinary people

in modern times trying to deal with relationships, but the twist has always been that we get to see inside

their heads and hear the voices plaguing them, the voices of doubt and even the voices of love

and hope and inspiration that they quash. The whole idea is that there's this big musical in

every one of us, honestly, all these

huge feelings that we very rarely share or see. And we wanted to portray that as a musical.

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