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

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

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.

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.

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