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The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
Stephen Sondheim
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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
Stephen Sondheim
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
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