"The music is beautiful, but it's really something different. Even to me, I go, what is the meaning of this? I understand it better now, but I have questions."
"It means more than just you're not alone. It means you're not alone in your desires, your dreams, your wishes, your hopes. I've got them, too. So let's both dream together."
"As much as you want to make it be about me, there's just too many ways in which it isn't."
"I mean, of all the places to do this show, Los Angeles is probably the right place. Just because of it being about a movie director in a movie studio."
He's not just the resident director, he's played Bonzai on Broadway
"I want to go someplace I've never been before. And I want to take an audience someplace they've never been before."
"We were doing a show with a big budget that had a huge set, fantastic lavish costumes, great choreography and a full orchestra with strings. I would love people to know how brave and unusual that was that we did."
"We live in a capitalist culture and it's easier to measure success in terms of dollars and cents. But I don't feel 'Side Show' is a flop because it's meant so much to so many people."
If I programmed this tribute to Sondheim, this is what I'd want to see and hear.
What is earned and what is deserved? What is the definition of talent today?