Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.