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

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

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

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Content dictates form and style.

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.