He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money.

Before women start rushing to this agent, a truly placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-institutional study has to be done.

They insisted on two things. 'Don't impersonate Coward. And never change his words.' I think we met their demands.

For the first year, it's going to be more of a single-ticket audience (at MAC). Hopefully it will be a new audience that isn't familiar with our work, and hopefully (they'll) become subscribers down the line.

Passions were definitely running high for people who remained in New Orleans. There is a large part of their lives with they need to rebuild from scratch. It has apparently has resulted in widespread frustration, which has made rebuilding efforts that much more challenging.

I don't know that I set out to do that, ... I consciously try not to have themes.

We've talked about the fact that the East Valley is growing and we'd like to do more of our programming out there. As soon as we heard they were building MAC, we were first knocking on the door.

In the first year, we wanted to test the water and see what kind of market there is out there.

We got many requests for a mystery. I thought if we were going to do one, why not do the greatest one of all time?