"I just keep turning to Sondheim. I think that he is probably the greatest source for me of wisdom and courage."
"Could Ellington and others have done this kind of work earlier if Gershwin hadn't done it? Maybe. But if they wanted to go that direction, they would have done it regardless of what Gershwin did."
Seven albums to listen to before, after or instead of the Big Game
"I can't say we're being completely ourselves. We're being our heightened selves because we're on stage in front of an audience. But we are as ourselves as we can be."
"To the Surface," the first album by Lawrence Fields tops this week's list
"There will always be a place for what we do if we keep the intentions in the right place."
He's not just the resident director, he's played Bonzai on Broadway
"I didn't want to do a reduction. The score is fantastic. I really like the idea of going very small and something that was very fragile."
"That’s what nice to having all these fabulous people who are my friends. I still have them and I will always have them."
"It's a drag when you take yourself really terribly serious. I don't live in the past, but I'm grateful for the past."