#greg lawrence

I would like to apologize for what I'm about to show to you all.

Kander: Considering the way Broadway is today, I have to agree with Steve Sondheim when he says that The Lion King is not a show that makes him want to write.  I don't go to see The Lion King and then suddenly I can't wait to dash home to work ... I went to see Hairspray the other night, and I had a good time, but again it didn't make me want to write. Ebb: I did want to write.  I wanted to write and tell them to go home and listen to Frank Loesser

Ebb: It is dismaying for me to see something like Mamma Mia and have to wonder where is everything we've ever learned about the theater.  Why has so much of that gone out the window? ... I don't get [shows like that].  They go over my head, and I saw Mamma Mia three times. Kander: Why? Ebb: Because I kept looking for the virtue of it.  I kept asking myself, why is this show so successful?  What kind of chemistry is this? Kander: Freddy, that's like looking for the caviar in a peanut butter sandwich.