There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

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

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

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

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

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