Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them.
Phenomenons only happen once in a lifetime.
You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.
Great things happen only once.
I don't want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing.
I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.
My dictum has always been: 'This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and nobody knows what's going to happen until it's done.'
'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!
