I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

I've always wanted to do something where I aged a lot, went from young girl to dowager.

I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.

I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.

I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.