It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

Thank you all, but this award has to be shared with Julius Epstein, Arthur Laurents, Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, George Furth, Jim Goldman, John Weidman, Hugh Wheeler and James Lapine. These are the men who created the characters that sang the songs, the situations that gave rise to the songs and the criticism that improved the songs. They were my collaborators. They are called playwrights. They invent. They make whole cloth out of nothing. They make a hat where there never was a hat. And they don’t just write musicals.

(excerpt from letter read by Mandy Patinkin on the CBS telecast, concerning Steve’s 2008 Special Tony Award® for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre)

You do know I mean Stephen Sondheim, don’t you?
He’s a former president of the Dramatists Guild.