Filming A Pirate Film Is Always Good

You Could Feel The Place Going Crazy Because We Hadn't Been On Stage Together For Maybe 35 Years And The Audience Could Just Feel Us In The Darkness Come On And They Went Nuts. It Made The Little Hairs Stand Up On The Back Of My Neck And We Sang Sit On My Face, Which I Thought Was Wonderfully Appropriate For George's Memorial, And Then We Bowed And We Showed Our Bare Asses.

I Got Used To Dealing With Groups Of Boys And Getting On With Life In Unpleasant Circumstances And Being Smart And Funny And Subversive At The Expense Of Authority.

When I Was 23 I Started Writing For I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again And Was Paid Three Guineas For Every Minute's Airtime.

To Me, The Musical Is Best When It's A Musical Comedy. So If You Have A Very, Very Funny Show, And Very Good, Funny Songs, That's What The Musical Does Best.

We Learnt A Lot Because We Got In With Real Choreographers Who Tell You What They Need From A Song, Because A Song Has To Advance The Story. Then Real Directors Like Mike Nichols Tell You Where You Can Have 'b Themes' And 'c Themes', And We Go Oh Yes, B Themes And C Themes! So We Were Taught In The Finest School Amongst The Finest People. And Also By The School Of Experience.