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#54

If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part

Stephen Sondheim and Bob Fosse; and then I'd develop osmosis and go write the best show ever. God, imagine if they had collaborated on something... if it ever worked it would beat anything that came before it. That's what I'd do at that dinner; convince them to collaborate!
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#60

If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part

Gosh, I don't know. I've always wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein, but I'd be more interested in his concer work than his theatre work, so he's out.
Maybe Jerry Robbins and Michael Bennett. I've encountered Sondheim and Prince (though not at a dinner party), so they're out.

"Stephen Sondheim and Bob Fosse; and then I'd develop osmosis and go write the best show ever. God, imagine if they had collaborated on something... if it ever worked it would beat anything that came before it. That's what I'd do at that dinner; convince them to collaborate!"

The problem with a Fosse-Sondheim collaboration wouldbe that it would never have happened. Sondhei has little intersted in showbiz and that's all that Fosse did (not denying that he did it brilliantly though). That's why Michael Bennett and Sondheim never did a show together after Follies, although I think with maturation (had he lived), Bennett would have gotten interested in other things and done another Sondheim show.

Updated On: 6/23/10 at 10:29 PM

#62

If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part

Stephen Sondheim and Audra McDonald
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#75

If you could sit between any two people in theatre history at a dinner part

I would love Fosse and Sondheim. Good one.

Some I've thought of:

Sondheim and Harold Arlen (Love Arlen, and you know Sondheim would have a good time too.)

Susan Johnson and Karen Morrow (A night out with some awesome belters! They also seem like lovely people.)

Fosse and Gwen Verdon (In the 1960s, preferably. I'd get wasted and sing some old tunes with them .)

John LaTouche and Sondheim would be a good one too.... John LaTouche and anyone, I think. John LaTouche and Alan Jay Lerner, perhaps?

Can't think of who I'd pair Michael Bennett with, but I'd love to have dinner with him. Maybe just a relaxed evening with Michael and Donna.
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