Twenty questions: Jack O'Brien, artistic director of San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, will stage the national tour of Broadway's Hairspray, and Henry IV, with Kevin Kline, for Lincoln Center Theater in fall 2003.

What do you always have with you when you direct a new show? A sense of humor. What's the best part of being a director? Not having to worry about how you look all the time. What's the worst part? Realizing that even if the day goes well, no one will probably want to ask you to dinner.

Not because they don't like you, but because you've been in their face all day; they probably need a little relief, as well as wanting to grouse about you a little! Where did you grow up? I grew up in Saginaw, Mich., spent my youth there, matriculated to the ...

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