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  • Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals. -- Lloyd Kaufman
  • I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals. -- Norm MacDonald
  • Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical. -- Julia Barr
  • Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Paul Rudnick
  • Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. -- Marvin Hamlisch
  • I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool. -- Lara Pulver
  • The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals. -- Laurie Anderson
  • I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. -- Marvin Hamlisch
  • I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay. -- Frank Oz
  • I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals -- Ethel Merman
  • I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. -- Anna Camp
  • Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical. -- Stephen Sondheim
  • I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess? -- Mario Cantone
  • I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. -- Ed McBain
  • Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck. -- James Wolcott
  • The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie. I said, "I think there's a Broadway musical here." And really, from that day, we started figuring out how we would do it. -- John August
  • I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything. -- Harvey Fierstein
  • I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it. -- Mary J. Blige
  • I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself. -- Frank Oz
  • It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to. -- Alexa Ray Joel
  • No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town. -- Margo Jefferson
  • I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy. -- Carol Burnett
  • I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. -- Brianna Brown
  • What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.' -- Nathan Lane
  • Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater. -- Zac Efron
  • I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver. -- Annaleigh Ashford
  • I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright. -- Muhammad Ali
  • I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with. -- Ozzy Osbourne
  • It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. -- John Lithgow
  • It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway. -- Tom Lenk
  • Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway. -- Will Chase
  • I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek. -- Mandy Moore
  • I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed. -- Taran Killam
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