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.

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

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

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

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

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

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