A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
