“Broadway’s not what it used to be.”

You sort of have to believe that, don’t you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.

There is something about the creative process… which is that you can’t talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you’re never really saying what happened… it’s a sort of happy accident.

Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we’ll see that’s to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of ‘Carousel’, and it was a very vivid experience.

I’ve discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common – a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.

Especially in the theater, which is where I came from. And I may go back to soon, as a matter of fact. To Broadway.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.