Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art…

- George C. Wolfe

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

- George C. Wolfe

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push …

- George C. Wolfe

Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So we had a black pr…

- George C. Wolfe

A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who are used to looking up to a bl…

- George C. Wolfe

I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wond…

- George C. Wolfe

With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes …

- George C. Wolfe

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

- George C. Wolfe

It's very important for an audience to know where they are and why they are there in a musical. It allows them to relax and follow this form that ope…

- George C. Wolfe