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Neil Tennant

"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."

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"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."

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Donna Grant

"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."

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Donna Grant

"The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May."

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Donna Grant

"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."

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Donna Grant

"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week."

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Donna Grant

"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there."

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Donna Grant

"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."

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Donna Grant

"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."

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Donna Grant

"Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players."

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Donna Grant

"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."

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Donna Grant

"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

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Neil Tennant
"When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s."

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Neil Tennant
"He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her."

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Neil Tennant
"I think the world should be one community."

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Neil Tennant
"The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s."

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Neil Tennant
"To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in."

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Neil Tennant
"At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage."

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Neil Tennant
"For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work."

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Neil Tennant
"We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality."

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Neil Tennant
"We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane."

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Neil Tennant
"She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together."

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