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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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"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
"Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can."
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"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
"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."
"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."
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."
"Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it."
"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall."
"You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people."
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