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"I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to."
"I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it."
"I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed."
"Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur."
"The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes."
"I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place."
"Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all."
"The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same."
"What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on."
"It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical."
"I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?"
"There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling."
"I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different."
"I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like."
"Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage."
"I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me."
"I've never been able to understand where great artists come from."
"I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping."
"I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons."
"When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore."