Peter O'Brien

And Sondheim was going to do it with Bergman and Bergman backed out.

So he got William Goldman to write the book.

It was brilliant.

I mean, I like musical theatre, which makes me the uncoolest person on the planet, I know.

I like good musical theatre.

I like it because it's so theatrical.

I never think musicals really work in film, except for maybe Singing in the Rain.

But I think the suspension of disbelief can happen in a theatre.

I think it's harder to do it in cinema.

I like the essential theatricality of people singing things that they haven't got the words to say.

And I think, you know, I love the great American songbook and, you know, Kern and Gershwin and

Rogers and Hart and Cole Porter.

And most of those songs, which would have, when theatre was kind of central to the culture,

Those songs that were big hits, 99% of them were from shows, you know, from musical shows.

So I just love musical theatre shows.

Yeah, my least favourite track in the whole show.

Oh, really?

Oh, sorry.

That's all right.

Okay, I've heard better versions of that as well, I have to say.