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The first play I ever saw - I was in junior high school - was a high school production of Noel Coward's 'Blithe Spirit,' which seemed to me absolutely magical.

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I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

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I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.

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There wasn't a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

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The wonderful thing about theater as an art form is it's a purely empirical art form. It's all about what works. And every show, every production, is created anew right from the moment you go into the rehearsal hall.

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If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.

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I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

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A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.

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Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. You don't see it.

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I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: February 6th, 1956

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