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

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

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

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.

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.