I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it..

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different..

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical..

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on..

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director..

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 alway….

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I thi….

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater..

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling..

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run..

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all..

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me..

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from..

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be ….

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not..

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form..

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing..

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 on….

Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly..

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good..

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater..