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If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.


Stephen Sondheim


#got #like #musical #same #song

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.


Stephen Sondheim


#generation #hammerstein #hits #movies #out

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.


Stephen Sondheim


#drowned #generally #get #language #lyric

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.


Stephen Sondheim


#intimately #level #math #music #necessarily

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.


Stephen Sondheim


#musical #rewritten #written

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.


Cathy Freeman


#chance #hope #i #korea #meaningful

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

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

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.


Stephen Sondheim


#back #because #convention #enjoy #generally

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.


Stephen Sondheim


#between #difference #fade #into #live






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