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- Haunt
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain images that always haunt me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the visual aspect of the theater. But I like what people have to say, too.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an off-Broadway, nonprofit kind of guy.
- Musical
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't be theoretical when you're building a musical.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn in. I had dedicated my libretto to my baby daughter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, 'Ohhh, it's magic.' Nothing's magic. A thing doesn't jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren't good.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the things I've done in my life, I've done to make money because I had to make money... and some things I did just because they were on my mind and they were of interest to me... some of the little plays I wrote.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most audience-participation shows, the participant is so clearly not a part of what's going on that it's the fish-out-of-water aspect that makes it funny.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!
- Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to dreams.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very laid-back person.
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