But, as he tells Backstage, «the more that I learned how family - centric the celebration is and just the core tenets of the holiday — about this obligation to remember loved ones that have passed on, remembering them every year in a
joyous way, putting
things out that they loved in life and passing their stories to a new generation — it just seemed full of potential to tell a unique but
very deep and emotional, funny, colorful, musical story.»