The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.

Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.

It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.

For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.