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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. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#best #bring #different #live #makes

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#every #feels #fraudulent #i #other

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#became #between #comedy #entertainments #hammerstein

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#musical #rewritten #written

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#before #collaboration #collaborator #comes #complete

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#cast #money #more #much #nowadays

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#although #becoming #formulating #healthy #keep

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#art #compared #dates #fact #feel

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#also #always #because #does #funnier