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You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the American musical does so thrillingly is bastardize these forms into something that is exhilarating and compelling and deeply moving.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: American Ballet Compelling Deeply Does Exhilarating Forms Go Hear Hear Music Itself Moving Music Musical Purity Recital See Something You

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'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Amazing Comedy Ever Gotta Heart Most Musical Perfect Ridiculously Songs You

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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.

~George C. Wolfe

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Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Become Certain Certain Things Come Inside Intrigued Just Live Me Them Things Want

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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.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Absolutely Because Discover Favorite Inside Knowing Live Longer New Not Knowing Period Project Something Something New Spend Time Working You

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If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Anywhere Because Experience Love Theatre Wherever You

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I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well.

~George C. Wolfe

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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.

~George C. Wolfe

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The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

~George C. Wolfe

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On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Different Piece Pieces Projects Show Shows Sometimes Surprising Up Which Will You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: September 23rd, 1954

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