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"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
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"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."

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"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me."


"When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors."


"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on."


"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."


"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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"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
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