I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

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

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

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.

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.

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.