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

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.