Scott Sanders Quotations

I didn't want to believe the 3.8 percent number published in the League's little research book. That wasn't the way we would sell this show. We deliberately went out and created a marketing plan that would appeal to audiences of all races, genders, ages - everyone.

I don't want people to get the notion we're getting fat and happy. The budget is lean. It's more honest in where costs are being incurred and clearer on where the costs are.

Based on what Oprah has seen in rehearsals, she has been very enthusiastic about everything the show is doing creatively,

We have to have a popular price for this show so that anyone who wants to see The Color Purple, regardless of their income level, can afford to come,

We're filming her show Nov. 8 and I think it airs Nov. 11.

We're just incorporating so many things into one event it's not just music, it's not just performance art.

What we are finding is that the people who are coming to New York keep telling us how much they wish their friends and families back home could experience what the audiences are experiencing ... on Broadway.

We all have obstacles to overcome and while our life's journey may not be identical to Celie, I think that triumph over adversity and moving on and finding self-love and yourself and your voice is something that we all need to do. I didn't feel like it was a black story or a woman's story, I thought it was universal and always thought the story sang, that it had so much music in its soul.

Read these for the characters and tales, yes, but above all for the language, which seems to rise from the very springs of invention.

You're about the one millionth person who has said that to me in the eight years I've been working on this,

That's another reason the mayor thought it was attractive. It keeps the money here in Council Bluffs.

Chicago is a terrific theater market. It's also the home of our director, Gary Griffin, and it wouldn't go unnoticed that it's also the home of Oprah Winfrey.

The budget being approved by the council is the operating portion.

The key point to the budget is that there are only two staff increases. The budget is status quo with the exception of two new positions in the police department. People need to understand we're not hiring a bunch of people or growing the government with the exception of those two people.

It's a question of how do we pay those personnel costs. There are two main choices - raise property taxes or create a franchise fee on gas and electric. We're not seeing opportunities to decrease expenditures without harming services.

The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.

Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.