If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.