Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
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At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
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So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before.
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I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
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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 got to be a song.
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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 have costume, story, acting, orchestra.
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When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.
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And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.
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Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
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We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
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In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.
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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
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I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
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Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.
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I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
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I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
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