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
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – 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
We didnt have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. – Jessica Hagedorn