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

I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

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

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

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.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

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