It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

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.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Musical theatre is my first love.

There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere who’s sitting there living for Tony performances. Singing and flipping along with the Pippins, and Wickeds, and Kinkys, Matildas, and Mormons's. So we might reassure that kid, and do something to spur that kid, ‘cause I promise you, all of us up here tonight, we were that kid.