Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.