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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.
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.
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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.
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I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.
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I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
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