I love the song, of course, but I'm a worrier. I worry that something won't be sung or danced right, and that the crispness of it, the panache, will be lost. And quite honestly, I worry that one of those elevators in the set won't function, and somebody will get hurt. I tend to be very pessimistic, I drive directors, and especially actors, crazy, at rehearsals, because I tend to be . . . Also, I'm very impatient, I want everything perfect immediately.
Rehearsals are all compromise.
Nothing ever turns out quite as you've idealized it when you're writing . . .