“Buddy, who, you all know as Patrick Swayze, he’s the one who trained me in the dances…. I spent days and days dancing with him….I was in heaven. So I just felt so plugged into the film that I sort of went past doing any character work, and I...
“I was working out the schedule for Into the Woods, and I sat Meryl [Streep] down. I said, “Meryl, I’m thinking that I’ll bring in the cast, we’ll work for about three weeks, and then we’ll have you come in, and then we’ll...
“You could write the most academic piece of lyric. And if the music is absolutely emotional, it will tell us that something else is going on, and it gives something for the actor to act. Why is that so beautiful? How do you fall in love at first sight? How does...
“This moment is all we have. Get outside of your comfort zone. Just get out there and do it. And it’s like the expression, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. It’s not going to all happen overnight. It’s lucky when it does. But when...
Jimmy Roberts is the composer of the second longest-running Off-Broadway musical in New York theater history, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, which ran for over 5000 performances. And it’s been produced around the world in languages as diverse as French,...
