I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

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

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.