Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

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.

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

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

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

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.

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.