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Stephen Sondheim Quotes about Children

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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 comes as if to a

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 comes as if to a picnic, and they 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. We live in a recycled culture.

Stephen Sondheim
Kings, Children, Years
"We will shock you: why musicals need to take bigger risks on a smaller scale" by Boff Whalley, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

Stay a child while you can be a child.

Stephen Sondheim
Inspirational, Children, Kids
Stephen Sondheim, Hudson Talbott, James Lapine (2002). “Into the Woods”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

Stephen Sondheim
Marriage, Children, Humorous
"The Little Things You Do Together" (song) (1970)

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.

Stephen Sondheim
Children, Military, Kids

Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

Stephen Sondheim
Life, Goodbye, Children

Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.

Stephen Sondheim
Children, Past, Justice
"Into the Woods". m.imdb.com. 2014.

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