You know, football is where it's at. They're not going to be shaken. John Ardoin Sam Ramey has always been my idol, one of the reasons why I started to sing. In high school I listened to his recordings and said, oh my God, I would love to be able to sing this way. The humor is there totally to communicate an ideal.
Every tiny thing has a reason, tied to some tradition, something that really happened.
So our Scarpia sneezes. I can see it so perfectly in my mind, as if I just saw it this year. The vision of Sutherland, in that pale green dress and that long red hair, sleepwalking - she just seemed like the most beautiful image, in this romantic production. If you take a gay guy into a cabaret where there's a talented singer doing a Cole Porter song, I don't care if he never heard Cole Porter before, the gay guy will listen, he'll hear something is going on. I've seen straights in the same place, and they'll just talk and they won't hear the music.