Broadway musical Quote by Neil Weinstock Netanel

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at…

— Mike Posner

A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story'…

— Kelly Asbury

I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors . . .. I am not taking the position that…

— Dana Rosemary Scallon

I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter.…

— Kelly Asbury

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that…

— Lloyd Kaufman

From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence…

— Gordon Smith

In my youth, cinemas showed two films in one day. I used to watch both of them. It may sound strange, but 'West Side…

— Ennio Morricone

Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

— David Bryan

[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a…

— Quindon Tarver

The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.

— Robin Gross

I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is a focus…

— Sean Mahon

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

— Oscar Wilde