7 Quotes by Marc Shaiman

We're making fun of people who pick ridiculous targets to blame anything about what's going on in their lives, so Canada was just the perfect, ridiculous, innocuous choice for a target.

I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to musicals, but (it) sends them up at the same time.

What do you call a one-man show that has four people helping out? They play the other million characters. Marty can only play a billion characters. We need others to help out. It's called If I'd Saved, I Wouldn't Be Here: Martin Short on Broadway . Anyone who likes him will be a kid in a candy store.

Well, it seems I was able to get the words 'Shabbat Shalom' in the father's mouth, ... And there seems to be a certain Jewish quality to the whole show. So if it does seem they're Jewish, well, I'm the culprit.

The real problem is we're living in a world that doesn't have enough place for a musical,

When we started with the concept, we were afraid it would be too insider, but every month, the culture throws us a new bone.

Once I read the script, I felt I had to do it,