"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
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"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
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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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"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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"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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"How sweet it is!"
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