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Author: Stephen Sondheim
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
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Stephen Sondheim
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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Stephen Sondheim
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.
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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Stephen Sondheim
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.
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Stephen Sondheim
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
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Stephen Sondheim
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
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Stephen Sondheim
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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Stephen Sondheim
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.
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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Stephen Sondheim
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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Stephen Sondheim
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