Barbara Isenberg > Quotes

“The problem with being a second-generation Californian is you're not objective about California itself. I think a lot of people come here for the comfort of it, or to reinvent themselves, and maybe creative people are natural searchers, searching for someplace to be. The lifestyle becomes very appealing--Clint Eastwood”
― Barbara Isenberg, State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work

“Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.”
― Barbara Isenberg, Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical

“Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner”
― Barbara Isenberg, Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical

“Writing the musical City of Angels was a wonderful job I gave myself. I returned to my loves of swing music and black-and-white movies and to the Los Angeles of my boyhood--playwright and tv writer Larry Gelbart”
― Barbara Isenberg, State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work