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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
We called the head of CBS and said, 'We know how network television feels about musicals. Would you even consider doing 'Gypsy?'' He said, 'If I did say yes, you'd have to have a big movie star who does not do TV.' I told him that, in our fantasy world, we'd like Bette Midler. He said, 'Get Bette Midler, and you have an on-the-air commitment.'
- Mills
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was captivated by Stephanie Mills.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.
- Nov 07, 2020
We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don't work, then you're going to see everyone go back to the way it was before 'Chicago.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw 'Chicago' or 'Hairspray.'
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand how other producers who have no experience making a musical jump in and produce one.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were no TV musicals until we did Bette Midler 'Gypsy,' and the success of that opened the door for us to do the rest.
- Best Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
What usually happens on the Oscar telecast is that as soon as best picture is announced, everyone is up out of their seats and running off to their parties.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neil and I had the greatest experience of our lives doing 'Chicago' with Latifah. Then we had the second best experience of our lives doing 'Hairspray.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've spoken to a lot of friends who are stars who could be great, and they say to us, 'Look, if you were doing a movie musical, and we could pre-record and lip-synch, sure. But live? So if we hit a bad note it's there for posterity? We're not going to go out there without a safety net.' People are scared to death of that.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
We wanted to take on social and political and LGBTQ stories which no one at the upper level of the entertainment industry ever really wants to do. So you have to fight, and you have to persuade, and you have to manipulate the studios and the networks. And you have to go back - over and over again - until they say yes.
- Skin
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of producing the Oscars is that it's a blood sport. With social media, everyone has a chance to voice their opinions. You have to know that entering into this special world requires a very thick skin.
- First People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say that, first of all, if you have the honor of being chosen to produce the Oscars, you usually get only one crack at it. We were the first people in sixteen years to do it three times in a row, and it was one of the most profound experiences you could ever imagine.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of 'Chicago' and 'Hairspray' and also musicals on TV. We did Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella' and 'Gypsy' and 'Annie.' Even 'Smash' was like doing theater.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very, very difficult to be a student in the drama department and also review my professors' school shows. I got a lot of pressure from them to quit the paper and concentrate on studying dramatic literature.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a great musical sequence in episode five of 'Smash' called 'Let's Be Bad,' and it probably is the closest to 'Chicago' that I think any of us have ever experienced.
- Bar
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think we're going to break the law in terms of what you can or can't do on TV. We're looking to do something edgy, different, and special.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we did 'Chicago' and we announced Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, everybody went crazy and said, 'What are they doing? What are they thinking?' And, now, you look at the movie, and you see that we chose the people that we wanted for that movie, and we were so proud of all of them.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neil and I are most thrilled that we were able to bring musical theatre to the enormous audience that 'The Sound of Music' reached.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe the most important thing that we have to say is that people don't often talk about network executives being brave. You don't talk about them as having integrity and a higher purpose, because it's a job... except for Bob Greenblatt. He is a theatre person. He loves and understands it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're finding that the casting of 'A Few Good Men' is different from the musicals because the kind of actors that you need to do it are movie actors, basically.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, we had the idea of doing this production of 'Steel Magnolias,' and we spoke to Queen Latifah about it, and she got excited.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neil and I share a desire for great quality in our work. If we are offered projects, look at projects, or consider projects that don't have that quality, then we don't do them.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live TV is the future. It's the only way you can beat the DVRing of America. Everything is DVRed, and no one watches stuff when it's on. Awards shows and sports are watched when they're broadcast.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything's going to go wrong, it'd go wrong during 'Peter Pan,' not 'The Sound of Music.'
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future for us is not to go bigger but to go different.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020