I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
Musically, I'm a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim, and I love, love 'Sweeney Todd.'
[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.
The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.
I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.
A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.
I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does.
Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
Songs from the theatre can be taken and put on record in a commercial and contemporary way, be reinvented and become standout tracks on their own.
Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.
We've been through about a million different line-ups throughout our career.
One of the most amazing things about 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think 'Glee' had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off.
