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" I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me. "
George C. Wolfe
White
Color
I Am
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" You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze and lock up. "
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" Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form. "
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" There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell! "
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" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "
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" Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are. "
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" If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian. "
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" I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play. "
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" I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent. "
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" Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them. "
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Become
Live
" I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. "
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Other
" There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.' "
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Broadway
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" My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new. "
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Knowing
Live
" I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated. "
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Chance
You
Me
" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "
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You
Way
Success
" Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon. "
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Something
Another
" The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy. "
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Musical
Only
Must
" Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. "
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Unique
Vision
Artist
" I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness. "
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Feel
Bite
Edgy
" If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. "
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Theatre
Love
Experience
" I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.' "
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See
Working
Will
" The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show. "
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Show
Time
" A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense of irreverence. "
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" Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating. "
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People
Me
" I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. "
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America
" The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating. "
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" My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. "
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" At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences. "
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" I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful. "
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Than
Am
" The best of any artist is in their art. "
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