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- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alison Pill is the unsung hero of 'Three Tall Women' to me. She's extraordinary in this part, and she makes it look easy. I'm just in awe of her.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm comfortable with bad news. I feel confident in my ability to solve the problem if I know that there's a problem.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tenacious. I work hard. I like people that I collaborate with to work as hard as I am.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I become involved with things that speak to me and move me and make me laugh and frighten me.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first real job as a director was working with Robbie Baitz on his play 'Three Hotels.' It was an incredible collaboration.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite experiences was '9 to 5,' for one reason: Dolly Parton. I learned what it means to really work hard and do it with a sense of humor about yourself. Every day was joyful.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it perfect? Absolutely not! But there was an audience for 'Wicked,' and our producers were smart enough to reach that audience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My preference is for people who come to rehearsal and get into the ring. I like a muscular actor who's playful.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the jobs of a director is to ask questions. One of the jobs of the director is to stand in for the audience until they get there.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I feel about rehearsals is that the best idea wins.
- Director
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask me that question. So for me to identify a little tribe of gay writers, I don't know.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'The Humans,' there's a gay character, and the fact that she's gay is probably the least interesting thing about her.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was probably the only 10-year-old who adored Sandy Dennis.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a computer can start a firestorm.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.
- Painter
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?
- Good Actors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a member of Circle Rep; I had done a little bit of directing there. I remember that I had a vacation from 'Angels', in which I remounted a play that I had done out of town called 'Three Hotels.' That's how I spent my week vacation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that from day one, when it became clear that 'Wicked' was going to have a life, that we have set a standard for ourselves that we are never going to shortchange the audience; that every person that we put into that musical is going to be held to the highest standards; and that nobody is going to be coasting.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
My associate director, Lisa Leguillou, is remarkable: flying around, visiting all the companies. She is truly the unsung hero of 'Wicked'. She has been by my side from day one, and she is invaluable. I frankly don't know how she does it.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, you're incredibly proud when an individual steps up to the podium and is acknowledged for their work. But to have an entire company acknowledged, there is just no higher honor ever paid for that company - or for the director, for that matter.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not resent Sarah Jessica Parker. We've been friends for decades. I just do not like what 'Sex and the City' did to my neighborhood.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the time as new plays would come out.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to do something very surprising next. I don't know what that is - something that has a high degree of risk.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They're engaged and eager, and they don't feel cynical to me. Sometimes in New York, there's a sense of, 'Prove it to me; prove this is worth my time.' I never felt that in Chicago.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a concentrated period of work for about five months, and then I take a bunch of time off. That's just the way I work.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of other actors who are wonderful that just don't work in a way that I work, or our methods aren't necessarily compatible. But then there are those you instinctually just are drawn to.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020