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.

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

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

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.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.