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

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

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

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

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.