Michael Ritchie Quotations

We're hoping the kids (who have been evacuated to Baton Rouge) realize there are people out there that care for them and are concerned about them.

When it was narrowed down to eight names and I was called down for an interview, then it became more serious. Things went very fast.

Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.

Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

I happen to enjoy fundraising a great deal, ... I think our greatest fundraising tool is going to be the quality of the shows.

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.

I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

Last season, we had two new musicals, and the rest of the season was partly determined by the choices that were available, and there were very few choices of shows going out on the road for us to choose from. My hope is that, season to season, you will see the best options that we have to produce on that stage, whether we are presenting shows that are going on the road post-Broadway or some pre-Broadway shows.

I've spent a lot of time in LA, so I have a fairly good sense of what that world is, and that group has been supportive of the theater in the past.

I've never liked having a play read to me.

I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge.

This is everything I love about theater, from soup to nuts,

This is obviously a major burden on an organization even as large as CTG, ... But this one deserves to be on our stage.

There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.

It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.

It was a smart move on his part. It hurts us, no question. 'Spamalot' as an anchor would have been unbelievable for us. But it really remains to be seen if Vegas becomes a destination for musicals much beyond where it is now. We're watching with a great deal of interest.

The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful.

It's a matter of pride. They would have a sense of control.

I want to see a shorter list of plays in production,

The new Kirk Douglas Theater for development of new plays and education in Culver City is an area doing a major redevelopment. We're part of that.

I'm going to miss the mix of the kids who are 21 and come up here and find themselves with people who are at the peak of their careers.

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters.

I had a lot of lucky breaks When I got a job that I had no training in; I just had to get good and work very, very hard, learning what I needed.

I'll miss the idea of 400 people coming together for such a short period of time. They arrive and then just start creating theater.

In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself.

I chose this very specifically for the first play for a lot of different reasons, ... One, I love it. Two, I know it's a production that works. Three, it does make a statement about the kind of theater that I really love, which is just that it's vibrant, theatrical. The fact that there is a social message in it is secondary to the theatricality of it.

The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years.