Once treated a little girl named Vanessa, who was suffering from the
final stages of leukemia, to a very rare, private performance of
"Barnum" (which he had been doing at the time) as a special treat for
her, even having the theater remove some of the seats to make way for
her nurses, hospital bed, and family to come and watch and Michael and
the entire cast performed the show just for her. Vanessa, tragically,
later died of the disease and even today, he still fondly remembers
her.
