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.
From Stephen Sondheim
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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.
Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.
Nice is different than good.
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?
My idea of heaven is not writing.
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