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‟ You must keep people happy backstage because that affects what's onstage. During a run, the playwright feels like the mayor of a small town filled with noble creatures who have to get out there and make it brand new every night. When a production works, it's unlike any other joy in the world.
- John Guare
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‟ I ushered at the Shubert in New Haven during graduate school when plays en route to Broadway still went out of town to try out. I worked backstage at summer stock doing jobs from garbage man to strapping on Herbert Marshall's wooden leg to fixing Gloria Swanson's broken plumbing in her dressing room with her yelling at me as I worked the plunger.
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‟ And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
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‟ However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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‟ I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
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‟ I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.
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‟ The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
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‟ All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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‟ Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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‟ I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.
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‟ The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
- John Guare