"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

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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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