I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

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 think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?