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What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

Broadway is obviously a dream come true, but audiences everywhere continue to make performing a blast.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.