Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.
People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like 'Hamilton,' started off-Broadway.
When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.
Drag wasn't really on Broadway. It was considered low-class.
My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.
I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me.
