Anything You Do, Let It Come From

You Have Two Kinds Of Shows On Broadway - Revivals And The Same Kind Of Musicals Over And Over Again, All Spectacles. You Get Your Tickets For 'the Lion King' A Year In Advance, And Essentially A Family Comes As If To A Picnic, And They Pass On To Their Children The Idea That That's What The Theater Is - A Spectacular Musical You See Once A Year, A Stage Version Of A Movie. It Has Nothing To Do With Theater At All. It Has To Do With Seeing What Is Familiar. We Live In A Recycled Culture.

Best To Take The Moment Present As A Present For The Moment. . .

All The Best Performers Bring To Their Role Something More, Something Different Than What The Author Put On Paper. That's What Makes Theatre Live. That's Why It Persists.

A Song Is Such A Short Form ... That 'the Slightest Flaw Seems Like A Mountain.' And So Every Song Needs To Be Revised 'til It's Close To Perfection... But Achieving Perfection Takes A Lot Of Energy.

They Wanted Me To Be A Concert Pianist, Because I Had A Very Good Right Hand, But My Left Hand's Terrible And I Hated Performing.