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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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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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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
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Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.
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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
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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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The man i'll never be, Who remembers him?
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White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.
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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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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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There's something inimical about the camera and song.
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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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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.
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I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.
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Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.
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