I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.