My audition song is, and has been since 1977, ‘I Love a Piano.
BEBE NEUWIRTHPart of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
More Bebe Neuwirth Quotes
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs ’cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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When you’re a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw ‘Hair.
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I’ve been on stage since I was 7. That’s where I’d rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn’t mean you are a bunch of things.
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Artists need to express.
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I don’t feel complete. It doesn’t feel like the electricity is making its connections
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The musical stuff I’d go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.
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One of the things that’s great about doing a show over and over again… is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time… to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg.
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I am a very complicated person.
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I’m not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It’s just not who I am.
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If I’m not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven’t been able to get to class for a while or I’ve been sick.
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