You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
From Harold Prince
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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