Balancing Act Quotes

“If someone else goes on for me,' she told Hearn, 'I feel as if somebody's sleeping with my man.”
― Martin Gottfried, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury

“Anyone Can Whistle, subtitled 'A Wild New Musical,' opened in New York on April 4, 1964, at the Majestic Theater. The reviews were generally negative, and Laurents defended himself with the rationalization that Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune 'didn't like the show because he was a Catholic. The idea that there's no miracles drove him up the wall.' Such a self-protective imagination made Laurents more resilient than Sondheim, who was so discouraged that he talked about quitting the theater entirely. The show closed after nine performances, ultimately becoming a cult musical--meaning that if everyone who says they saw it, actually saw it, it would have run for years.”
― Martin Gottfried, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury

“I wore only cast-off clothes,' Angela remembers, but as a fact rather than a hardship. 'I didn't buy one single new thing during those first years. It was such a curious dichotomy, having no money at all and yet living in this incredible and generous Perkins household. I was living in abject luxury.”
― Martin Gottfried, Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury