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The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.
George Costello Wolfe
Smashing things together. Because, culturally, that's America at its most interesting. It's things connected, awkwardly, that produce the brilliance. It's not absoluteness that produces the brilliance; it's when things that don't belong together collide, and in that collision, something springs forth, and that becomes extraordinarily fascinating to me.
George Costello 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 form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form.
George Costello Wolfe
I think it's that a musical must maintain buoyance. 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 form, really, at its best...
George Costello Wolfe
George Costello Wolfe
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Occupation:
American Playwright
Born:
September 23, 1954
Quotes count:
5
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George Costello Wolfe
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