I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.

When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore.

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

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

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