Once I finish a show, it stays finished! Done! Close the book, put it away, here the Maestro laid down his pen. Except sometimes. I mean, there’s always one line that I never got right. Or a character whose actions don’t quite make sense. Or just something … missing. I did a blog post manyRead More »

When I did the first concert in my SubCulture residency in December 2014, I knew I was starting a new phase in my musical life, but I didn’t realize that I was actually closing a chapter as well. That night was the last time that Anika Noni Rose and I performed together for ten years.Read More »

I had been warned that the crowd at the early show was likely to be kind of subdued. Monday night in Pittsburgh, mostly subscribers, older folks, nothing bad but good to know in advance. To our surprise, that was definitely not the case. We did two sold-out shows for festive, rowdy Pittsburgh audiences and weRead More »

Let’s start this story by referring to the picture below this paragraph. That frame of video represents the real beginning of my career in the New York theater. See that dark-haired kid on the right at the piano, onstage at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall on June 10, 1992? That’s all 6’2″ and 120 poundsRead More »

I don’t know about how it works in your house, but in our little corner of show business, the first Tuesday of September feels like someone shot a starter pistol in Times Square and suddenly there’s a guy screaming “BACK TO WORK, YOU WEASELS!” and everyone is running frantically to their desks. I hadn’t heardRead More »