Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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.
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
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.
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.
I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.
You can never overlook a guy.
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.