It's one of the most lavish shows I've worked on other than shows in New York and on Broadway. There is quite an investment in production values.

We say to ourselves, 'Why do we like this man?'. But, he has a soliloquy at the end where he explains that it was the passion of theater and the passion of the written word that drove him to be the man that he was. It was something he couldn't resist.

There are ballads, anthems, all musical styles. The music really moves the show along. As a choreographer, I tried to make the dancing true to the style of Elizabethan dance. And, when people bow, it's very specific. It's a four-count bow.

We collaborated over the past two years and shaped the show.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.