"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."
― Stephen Sondheim
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Stephen Sondheim
- "I’m interested in the theater because I’m interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music."
- "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."
- "In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
More In Imagination
- "I always wanted to make a children’s album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds."― Lisa Loeb
- "In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."― Wallace Stevens
- "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination."― John Keats