19th-century Producer Quotes

Richard D'Oyly Carte

Charles Frohman

Hallie Flanagan

For it is not right that in a house the muses haunt mourning should dwell. Such things befit us not.

Charles Frohman

We live in a changing world: man is whispering through space, soaring to the stars in ships, flinging miles of steel and glass into the air. Shall the theater continue to huddle in the confines of a painted box set? The movies, in their kaleidoscopic speed and juxtaposition of external objects and internal emotions are seeking to find visible and audible expression for the tempo and psychology of our time. The stage too must experiment— with ideas, with psychological relationships of men and women, with speech and rhythm forms, with dance and movement, with color and light—or it must and should become a museum product.

Hallie Flanagan

Queen Victoria: I thought gags were things that were put by authority into people's mouths.
D'Oyly Carte: These gags, your Majesty, are things that people put into their own mouths without authority

Richard D'Oyly Carte