Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you’re seeing them. James Lapine Read Quote
Good musicals, a strange world, seem so easy. People say, ‘Ohhh, it’s magic.’ Nothing’s magic. A thing doesn’t jell. Adapt. Change the rhythm. Shorten the scene. Rewrite the character. Maneuver the waters. Seeming easy is why so many shows aren’t good. James Lapine Read Quote
The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it’s there, you’re stuck with it. James Lapine Read Quote
I designed a theater magazine that was full of plays and essays about the theater, and then I worked at a theater school. By osmosis or something, I was learning from reading plays and not being analytical about them, but when I would read them, the joy in me was mostly from imagining them in my head and visualizing them. James Lapine Read Quote
In most audience-participation shows, the participant is so clearly not a part of what’s going on that it’s the fish-out-of-water aspect that makes it funny. James Lapine Read Quote
I don’t do movie junket-y things, because I don’t really do movies that much. James Lapine Read Quote