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Stephen Sondheim

"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song."

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"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song."

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