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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
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New York City
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.
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When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.
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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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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
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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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If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.
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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not. You have to move on.
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If I got involved with the chat rooms and Facebook and everything - I would probably never leave. That's why I don't do it. I literally don't do it. At all.
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Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
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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.
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Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
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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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Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world, so I'm always happy when anything in any way is accepted.
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I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.
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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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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
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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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Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often because my mother was bitter about him and did everything she could to prevent me from seeing him.
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