There are a lot of opportunities to try out new ideas and new things through the music. I think that Gounod has done a magnificent job relating mystery and sensations and moods with the music.

It's a very appropriate show to be doing around Halloween because it's very dark and mysterious. There are some great chorus scenes and some dark stuff and funny stuff as well. It's a really perfect balanced show in many regards.

(New Orleans) is filled with voodoo and vampire lore. Being raised in that city has influenced my aesthetic tremendously, and I hope to bring that into this production.

I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.

The relationship found its rhythm. He began to rely on me for ideas of where music could express ideas that he wanted to achieve.

We wrote a little manifesto with just some ideas on how this digital revolution could transform music-making itself, and that is the part that people have generally ignored so far. They've been totally preoccupied with the business side of it, but not so much with how the new formats - or the freedom of formats - could change the nature of what exactly is created.