“In live theater, the author is a theory put into practice by the actors. The theater is a lie in which you harpoon the imagination of the audience in creating the fantasy that's on stage."—Maury Yeston, composer (Nine, Titanic, and now, the Roundabout’s Death Takes a Holiday), on theater as a collaborative art, quoted in Marshall Heyman, “A Music Man’s ‘Holiday,'" The Wall Street Journal, July 23-24, 2011
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Quote of the Day (Maury Yeston, on Theater as a Theory and a Lie)
“In live theater, the author is a theory put into practice by the actors. The theater is a lie in which you harpoon the imagination of the audience in creating the fantasy that's on stage."—Maury Yeston, composer (Nine, Titanic, and now, the Roundabout’s Death Takes a Holiday), on theater as a collaborative art, quoted in Marshall Heyman, “A Music Man’s ‘Holiday,'" The Wall Street Journal, July 23-24, 2011
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