We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

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.

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.