New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.

What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.

I think the way I can sing the way I sing is because of the way I talk to my animals. I hit some really high notes.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

I just create, that's what I do.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.