Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music
John LithgowIt's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
John LithgowI was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.
John LithgowI grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.
John Lithgow