The actor-turned-director created the role of Charley Kringas in the musical's infamous original production.
Couple of highlights from the interview which is well worth reading for any Merrily fan:
It's almost surreal to have worked with those men and to get to do that material, which is just so extraordinary—and some of it written on me! "Franklin Shepard Inc." came in three days before previews began. Hal spent five weeks saying, "And then he sings a song here and let’s move on." And then Steve wrote that song. You feel like the greatest tailor in the world just built you a gold suit. He knew that I was good with a lot of words. I had three good notes, and he kept hitting him.
Lindsay’s just doing one of the great performances ever. And Daniel—so good. Watching him, I didn’t miss me at all.
I learned how to be in the theatre from Hal and Steve. I learned respect. They respected the stage doorman the same way they respected Angela Lansbury. Hal was always about everyone’s important and everybody’s a part of this. You need everybody—we’re all in together. These two men just had enormous respect for everybody in their orbit. And everybody working—we were kids!—and we were treated like we were big stars.