Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter go on a new excellent adventure: 'Waiting for Godot'

Let's go back in time — to 1989 — when movie-goers first met the dopey but adorable time-traveling headbangers in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure."

The film put actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on the map — and began a friendship.

Around three and a half years ago, Reeves had an idea. "I was in a hotel room," he told Morning Edition host Michel Martin. "I was thinking about what Alex and I could work on again. And then it just struck me: Waiting for Godot."

Whether a stroke of madness or brilliance, their pitch found an enthusiastic partner in director Jamie Lloyd. On September 13, Reeves and Winter began preview performances at New York's Hudson Theater.

In case you weren't a theater kid in school, "Waiting for Godot" is a more-than-70 year old surrealist play by Samuel Be