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Look At The Darkest Hit Musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - They Are Exuberant Experiences. They Send You Out Of The Theater Filled With Music

I Was In 20 Shakespearean Plays By The Time I Was 20.

I Grew Up In A Theater Family. My Father Was A Regional Theater Classical Repertory Producer. He Created Shakespeare Festivals. He Produced All Of Shakespeare's Plays, Mostly In Shakespeare Festivals In Ohio. One Of Them, The Great Lakes Theater Festival In Cleveland, Is Still Going. So I Grew Up Not Wanting To Be An Actor, Not Wanting To Go Into The Family Business.

My Father Was A Man Of The Theater. I Grew Up In A Theater Family. As A Young Man, As A Boy, I Gypsied Around With My Siblings And My Parents To, Like, Eight Different Towns, Went To Eight Different Schools. All Those Things Were Extremely Formative, And I Think That's What Happens.

Academics Tend To Have Wonderfully Infantile Senses Of Humor.