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Stories Quotes by Stephen Sondheim
- 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…
- Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface…
- After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
- 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…
- 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 was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway...
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