The Musical Has Always Been In Jeopardy

I Got Successful Awfully Quick, And I Wanted It... But I Do Think There Is Responsibility To Move The Musical Theater Form Forward. I Think You Always Have To Be Aware Of The Work That Came Before And Build On That.

The Idea Is To Work And To Experiment. Some Things Will Be Creatively Successful, Some Things Will Succeed At The Box Office, And Some Things Will Only - Which Is The Biggest Only - Teach You Things That See The Future. And They're Probably As Valuable As Any Of Your Successes.

The Idea That I Have To Be On The Same Side Of The Fence As Dan Quayle Is Cruelly Depressing To Me, But The Truth Is, I Believe In Family Values.

You Think, 'musicals, They Must Always Be Romantic' - You'd Be Surprised How Few Of Them Historically Have Ever Been Romantic.

I'm Always Glad To See Somebody Rethink Something Rather Than Reproduce Something I Did.