A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.

Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, "Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live." It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.

I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.

The audiences are what keep me enthusiastic.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

I love what I'm doing, I love creating new things.