All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. Thats what makes theatre live. Thats why it persists. – Stephen Sondheim
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audiences imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean theres no fourth wall. – Stephen Sondheim
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. – Stephen Sondheim
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. – Stephen Sondheim
I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. Its a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me – I wanted that challenge. – Jeremy Irvine