I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

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.

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

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

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

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