Writing The Broadway Musical Quotes

“From its opening steps to the New York opening night, the work never stops. That a show is not written but rewritten applies above all to a musical. That a show is not written but wrought applies even more.”
― Aaron Frankel, Writing The Broadway Musical

“As characters narrated literally about themselves in the third person (!), Ragtime may be the first “documusical,” a pageant of tableaux, illustrating but not re-creating its source, a manufactured entertainment. Missing”
― Aaron Frankel, Writing The Broadway Musical