I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

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

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

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