Answer: Watching Grass Grow.

People often think you can produce a great show overnight.

Wrong.

If you attended For the Love of Quincy in November 2025, what you witnessed on stage was the result of 11 months of planning, creativity, collaboration, and relentless work.

A successful production doesn’t begin on stage. It begins with an idea.

For me, the journey from concept to production is like assembling a giant puzzle. My mind never stops creating. Pieces are constantly being added, removed, reconsidered, and rearranged until the vision begins to make sense.

And even then, what works perfectly in your imagination doesn’t always work in reality. So you adjust. You rethink. You create again.

Once the vision becomes clear, another challenge begins: selecting the right musicians, assembling the right team, and finding a musical director who not only understands the vision but has the talent, experience, and instincts to bring it to life.

With For the Love of Quincy, that process took 11 months.

Was it perfect? That depends on who you ask.

But audiences were still talking about the show months later. For me, that’s one of the greatest measures of a production’s impact: Did people remember it? Did they talk about it? Did they feel something?

After a production like that, most people might take a long break.

Not me.

A producer is always looking toward the next challenge.

And my next challenge is Black Diamonds & Pearls.

That means starting the creative cycle all over again—but this time, I needed a different approach.

I needed uninterrupted mental space. So I left the United States for a while to think, reflect, imagine, and create.

No meetings.

No distractions.

No pressure to immediately turn every thought into a decision.

Just time.

I call it “Watching Grass Grow.”

To most people, watching grass grow sounds slow, uneventful, maybe even boring.

To me, it’s where creativity happens.

It’s where ideas have room to breathe. Where possibilities are explored without deadlines getting in the way. Where a rough idea slowly becomes a vision—and a vision eventually becomes a production.

Sometimes the most productive thing a creative person can do is appear to be doing absolutely nothing.

But make no mistake.

The grass is growing.

And this time, the grass has grown.

The vision is becoming clear.

The pieces are coming together.

Now it’s time to bring Black Diamonds & Pearls to life.

Stay tuned.