Things change and evolve, and as a director has an idea you want to be in the room to try and accommodate their vision as well as your own so that everybody is on the same wavelength and you go forward smoothly. We love our actors and our directors and our choreographers. We're usually very, very close to them, and we're always around and available to keep working on the project until it comes out right. There's not a single musical I can think of that hasn't gone through a million changes and a million fixes and a million revisions. It's just the nature of the beast.
Theater is one of the few art forms that combine music and language and drama and visuals.
There are so many different components. And even though technically, our job descriptions are that Lynn is the lyric person and I'm the music person, we certainly have many ideas and thoughts about all of the different components in musical theater. I think, in the best theater collaborations, it's very healthy that you work with people that really understand all the different media. The two of you are in a very wonderful position in terms of your place in the modern musical spectrum. It's hard to say and kind of scary to think about.