If you want to learn how to sing, listen to Ella Fitzgerald.

The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.

No, I only like whether I like the story or not, essentially see something in it that isn't completely there.

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.