I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

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

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!