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Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone
Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Dramaturge
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Musician
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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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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One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
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I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.
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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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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player. That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player. How can you tell? It's PIPING hot! Then blow on it first!
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You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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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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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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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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Into the woods you go again You have to every now and then Into the woods, no telling when Be ready for the journey Into the woods, each time you go There's more to learn of what you know.
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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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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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Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night. Tonight there will be no morning star.
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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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White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.
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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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Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
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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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