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Audience Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- 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 last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work…
- I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.
- When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
- 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…
- I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you…
- I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry…
- 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…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
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- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster
- If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what… — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu