Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

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.

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.

Deciding what is to be sung and what is not to be sung is really what writing a musical is about.