I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.
In our time producers were the main pillar of any show.
I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
What normally we see is the finished product, someone's performance on screen, but behind the scenes, a lot goes into it.
Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.
