God created black people and black people created style..

With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes ….

I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wond….

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push ….

Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art….

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster..

A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who are used to looking up to a bl….

I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal room, you have space and you can see it. You….

It's very important for an audience to know where they are and why they are there in a musical. It allows them to relax and follow this form that ope….

Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So we had a black pr….

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me..