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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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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution."
Solution
"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
Movies
"There's something inimical about the camera and song."
Music
"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged."
Want
"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."
Imagination
"Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."
Money
"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."
Actor
"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"
Art
"After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes."
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."
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"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
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"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."
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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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