Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.