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.

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.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

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.

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.

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

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.