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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
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With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.
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Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!
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The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.
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My cage has many rooms.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
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Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.
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You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits.
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Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
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Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake On, then, with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back.
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Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.
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I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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