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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

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