104 Quotes by George C. Wolfe

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

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.

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender.

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

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.

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.

1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories.