Famous Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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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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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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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
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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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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
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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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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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