'I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds'When Stephen Sondheim was in his 30s, he would get approached, occasionally, by out-of-town theatre companies, struggling with a production. He was the hot new thing, the lyricist of West Side Story and Gypsy and in demand as a play doctor, so off he went. He laughs at the memory. "Every single one of them was a failure. I didn't help them …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM on December 20, 2010