Slotted Spoons Don't Hold Much Soup.

Take A Play That You Like But You Think Is Flawed, And See If You Can Improve It And Turn It Into A Musical. [...] Then Make Up Your Own Story.

Let The Moment Go. . . . Don't Forget It For A Moment, Though. Just Remembering You've Had An "and" When You're Back To "or" Makes The "or" Mean More Than It Did Before. . . . Now I Understand! And It's Time To Leave The Woods.

They All Deserve To Die. Even You, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because The Lives Of The Wicked Should Be Made Brief For The Rest Of Us Death Would Be Relief.

You Have Two Kinds Of Shows On Broadway - Revivals And The Same Kind Of Musicals Over And Over Again, All Spectacles. You Get Your Tickets For 'the Lion King' A Year In Advance, And Essentially A Family Comes As If To A Picnic, And They Pass On To Their Children The Idea That That's What The Theater Is - A Spectacular Musical You See Once A Year, A Stage Version Of A Movie. It Has Nothing To Do With Theater At All. It Has To Do With Seeing What Is Familiar. We Live In A Recycled Culture.

I Do Not Dwell On Dreams I Know How Soon A Dream Becomes An Expectation How Can I Have Expectations? Look At Me, No, Captain, Look At Me, Look At Me!