"We can't do SWEENEY TODD! It's too gruesome! We just did a bunch of dark stuff! Audiences want happy!"
"So what would you recommend?"
"FOOTLOOSE."
"NO! NO NO NO NO NO GOD******F*****NO!!!"
"Why not?!"
"There's drinking and death in it."
"Oh right, that's not great. SOUND OF MUSIC it is, then."
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum