Susan Stroman
Susan Stroman
Susan P. Stromanis an American theatre director, choreographer and performer. She is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for The Producers...
art real museums
I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.
art unique long
I feel the theatre is the most unique one of all [the arts] for collaboration. I feel very fortunate to be in a field where I really do get to have long conversations with the visual artists, the actors, the musicians. It's all art forms rolled into one and I feel very fortunate to be a part of it.
art joy really-happy
I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all- immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy- it saves you.
funny half opening written year
Mel has written 10 new songs, and they're very funny. It's a year and a half away from opening on Broadway.
learned orchestra recorded sing singing vocal
She learned it all, she does it all. ... Everybody's doing everything. They're really singing on the set. We recorded their vocals with the orchestra before we shot, but then we had them sing live on the set, so that when I got to editing, I ... could use their recorded vocal or their live vocal.
laughs life raft time
This movie is like a little life raft for him. He laughs every time he comes to see it.
movies original
This had to be the musical. We never harkened back to the original movie.
thinking house opera
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.
thinking play dancing
I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.
successful thinking men
I think a woman who is successful is critiqued more harshly than a man is critiqued.
running stories
It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.
thinking people theatre
I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.
heart two live-theatre
You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart.
miracle musical cost
It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.