There have been little donations or grants and no sugar daddies. That's virtually unheard of in the theater business.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

[Many people in the theater business attended that first preview on Feb. 6, 1979.] A lot of them said it was too bad, but it wasn't going to work, ... And I was really disappointed that especially actors gave it no chance.

We thrive because we do musicals, ... I look at theater as a business and produce a product that people want to see.

There's a certain appeal in having a job that's secure in the theater business, ... But it would mean giving up working with orchestras, chamber groups and opera companies. If I'm going to continue on, I just have to say no. But they dangle that money, you know, and you just think, wow, that would pay for the renovation in my house.

I make theater for myself, and if someone else can derive some value from it, fine.