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Stephen Sondheim
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"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
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Stephen Sondheim
Topic(s):
Art
"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
Topic(s):
Communication
"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
Topic(s):
Music
"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."
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Stephen Sondheim
Topic(s):
Poetry
"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
Topic(s):
Best
"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
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Stephen Sondheim
Topic(s):
Movies
"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
Topic(s):
Imagination
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
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Stephen Sondheim
Topic(s):
Money
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