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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.
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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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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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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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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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
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I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
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Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.
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To wish and wait From day to day Will never keep The wolves away.
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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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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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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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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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