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 of language before people begin to trust you in a play.
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
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
I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.
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
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 …
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster. - George C. Wolfe
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.
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
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…
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
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 …
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
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…
I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal room, you have space and you can see it. You… - George C. Wolfe
I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal room, you have space and you can see it. You…
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
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…
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