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“The worst thing about being a lyricist is that everyone else is in rehearsal,...”
– Stephen Sondheim
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“He’s the closest we have to Chekov or Shakespeare writing in the...”
– Raúl Esparza on Stephen Sondheim (via Stage Directions)
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“I always try to pick something that frightens me. A writer should frighten...”
– Stephen Sondheim
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“What if her broach is only glass, and her costumes unravel?
What if her coach...”
– The Glamorous Life, A Little Night Music
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Rebecca Front on meeting Sondheim
Being an actor, I get to meet famous people pretty often, and being an idiot, I frequently respond badly. After the first performance of a Stephen Sondheim musical I was in many years ago, I was introduced to the composer. Unfortunately, the director, who made the introduction, mentioned that I too write songs, which naturally prompted Sondheim (lyricist of West Side Story) to talk song-writing...
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Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd. He served a dark and a vengeful god. What happened then - well that’s the play, And he wouldn’t want us to give it away, Not Sweeney, Not Sweeney Todd, The demon barber of Fleet Street.
— The Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd
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