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David Antin

"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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"I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."

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"Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either."

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"We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play."

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"We're making this huge changeover from underground to more mainstream audiences. I don't know if we could ever repeat this type of feeling. We're really excited."

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