Audience Quote by Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait…

— Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and…

— David Bryan

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

— Cory Michael Smith

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull…

— Alan Menken

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I only know how to write musicals.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and far between, and it's important to…

— Rob Marshall

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer.…

— David Henry Hwang

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.

— Alan Menken

I'm not really into musicals.

— Christian Bale

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in,…

— George C. Wolfe