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.
From Stephen Sondheim
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.
Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
I was raised to be charming, not sincere.
I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.
So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.
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