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.

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.

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

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.

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 was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

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