Criticism Is Valuable... And Self-congratulatory

We've Got To Find A Way To Protect The Process Of Making Musical Theater.

I Like To Do Everything You Can Possibly Do Before You Go Into Rehearsal, Because Once We Are In Rehearsal Or On The Stage There Will Be A Problem I Didn’t Anticipate. It’s Really Good To Think We Got It All Nailed - Of Course You’ve Never Got It All Nailed.

Audiences Are Quite Happy To Be Astonished, And They Don't Care Who Does That Astonishing.

Nothing Is Staged Exactly As It Was, Because I Can't Remember - And I Consider That An Advantage.

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.