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I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.