If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Ma… — Jerome Lawrence

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Jerome LawrencePlaywright · American · 1915 – 2004

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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing. — Irwin Shaw
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. — Mark Twain
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. — Voltaire
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written. — Jerome Lawrence
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do. — Jerome Lawrence
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play. — Jerome Lawrence