The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Anton Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!