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"All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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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."
"I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man."
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"Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father."
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