Musical Theater Quotes

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I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I grew up doing musical theater.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in a play and kept going. But I never set out to be an actor; it happened over time.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.