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.

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.

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

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

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

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

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.