Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.