On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide
always said that Bernie didn’t bet on the horses, he bet on the jockeys. Michael Bennett comes up with a musical. Mike Nichols comes up with a play, Neil Simon with a play. You try to get their shows in your theaters. So Sondheim comes up with a musical—you say yes. William Goldman used to say, “Nobody knows anything. Every time out, it’s a guess.”
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The World's Your Stage: How Performing Artists Can Make a Living While Still Doing What They Love
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In every score I write, there’s a Harold Arlen song. “Children and Art” is the Harold Arlen song. LAPINE: And how do you characterize a Harold Arlen song? SONDHEIM: It’s about seduction and warmth and yearning.
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Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
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In John Carey’s brilliant book What Good are the Arts?, he demolishes, one by one, all the lessons and rules and theories that people have applied to culture and its significance – their attempts to ‘prove’, through science or logic or philosophy, that great art does this to you, and is better than not-great art because it has that. Ostensibly clev
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