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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
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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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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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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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It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.
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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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