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.

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

I started listening to classical music when I was in my early teens. Prior to that, I listened to pop records or band records.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.