“If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?”
Marian Burros
“When he shows up at rehearsal, I'll actually believe he's here.”
Keith Lockhart
“This was a great dress rehearsal for the Io encounters. We've been wondering how the spacecraft might hold up when it gets close to Io. This latest brush with radiation makes us think that the odds of survival may be fairly good.”
Jim Erickson
“Probably the hardest days are when the presenters come in for rehearsal. We're lucky. We have a person from the academy who tapes the pronunciations (of the nominees' names) for us, so we don't usually find out we're saying someone's name wrong, but still you're running everywhere making changes.”
Jenny Stanley
“Imagine what it would be if prices went up 20 percent. This is nothing. This is just a rehearsal, an appetizer.”
David Wu
“Imagine what it would be if prices went up 20 percent, ... This is nothing. This is just a rehearsal, an appetizer.”
“The weirdest thing was that we rehearsed in the exact same room we rehearsed in 34 years ago, ... When I went into the washroom and looked in the mirror, I thought, 'Who is this white-haired guy?'”
John Guare
