Kleban Quotes

Kleban Two-Block Rule: " Don't speak about the play until you're two blocks away."

Ed's metaphor for creating a musical: " A major musical is this: someone gets hit by a Mack truck and he's carried into an emergency room. Five or six crazy egotistical genuises who have never met are called in to put him together. Now these brillant weirdos must get along if the patient is to survive. If any organ goes, the patient dies. If the patient survives, that's a hit musical."

Ed's statement from a BMI Magazine explaining what the Musical Theatre Department meant to him: " I don't know what I'd do without the workshop and its members. I trust their reactions more than any single genius in the theatrical profession. My workshop colleagues heard and dissected all the material I wrote for A Chorus Line. And when the show won everything, I walked into a session and received an absolute ovation. It meant more to me than almost anything becuase this very special group of people understood completely what was done. That moment gave the whole enterprise validity...a celebration of the process within the workshop. It proved that we weren't sitting around whistling "Dixie""