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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
- Forgotten
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
- Quintessential
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020