Sondheim Quote for the Young People

There's a great interview with Stephen Sondheim in today's ( 8/28 ) NYTimes, it's SIMPLE and EASY to sign up and get access. Sondheim is curating the Telluride Film Festival and had this to say about theater and movies:

"I am always stunned when anybody under 50 knows what I do. Because the theater is, as we say, not the province of young people. Movies are."

He's right, as usual.


Sondheim article

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Updated On: 8/28/03 at 09:10 AM

He does have a valid point to raise. Todays theater goers are getting older and older.
This is one of the reasons why I was so heavily involved in Children's Theater.
If we could get one small kid to be in awe of the whole process and then learn and nurture that, we have ourselves another theater goer.

Madonna was the woman who had to perform "Like A Virgin" every night from memory.

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