We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

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

Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.