Andrew Lloyd
Andrew Lloyd
assumes basketball brought chance closer great kids son until
They're like my kids and we are a real family. Everyone assumes my son is going to play basketball but there is a chance he won't be able to do a lot of things. We won't know until he's about a year-and-a-half old, but he is great kid. He's brought us all a lot closer together.
came change daughter pure
She came here to change her life, to get her daughter back -- that was what was real and pure in her world. She would do everything she had to do to accommodate that wish.
bring stuff television theatrical
It's important to bring theatrical stuff back to television,
cheer
Now, all week, our cheer has been 'Final Four'.
baby birth sure week
He's doing really well now. But we weren't even sure in the week before his birth if our baby was going to survive.
choked excuse
Excuse me if I get a little choked up.
close meant open presenting theater
In presenting this, a theater is meant to open a discussion, not to close it,
guess mine musical season time worrying
It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
cast girl michael sarah time younger
I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
felt people
We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
advantage cast course emmy shows sing wonderful
I think that the wonderful advantage we have in the film of being able to cast a girl as young as Emmy and which we couldn't do in the theatre of course because no girl of 16 or 17 could sing 8 shows a week, couldn't sing two.
began buy ended exactly found glad john meant musical opposition quite time
I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
answer came finally screen submit work wrote
When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.
life mean work
I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.