Musical Theater quotes:

Send

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. -- Betty Buckley
Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world. -- Mandy Patinkin
I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition. -- Trey Anastasio
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. -- Amy Adams
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater. -- Seth MacFarlane
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater. -- Rachael MacFarlane
I grew up doing musical theater. -- Chris Colfer
The truth is I love musical theater and always have. -- Idina Menzel
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. -- Idina Menzel
I so miss musical theater. Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. -- Brianna Brown
I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater. -- Lana Parrilla
People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are. -- Katee Sackhoff
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background. -- Janel Parrish
I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film. -- Lara Pulver
Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater. -- Zac Efron
I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.' -- David Hasselhoff
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. -- Laura Benanti
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another. -- Jennifer Garner
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. -- Loni Anderson
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. -- Trevor Nunn
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! -- Zac Efron
Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot. -- Chris Pine
I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life. -- Bethany Joy Lenz
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. -- Sophie Cookson
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on. -- Harold Prince
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. -- Bridget Regan
I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did. -- Gretchen Mol
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage. -- Neil Tennant
I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life. -- Audra McDonald
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that. -- Harold Prince
People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and guardians about finding a place with likeminded people where they can feel accepted. That's what I needed, and that's what I found with musical theater. -- Nick Jonas
I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture. -- Anna Kendrick
I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater. -- Josh Groban
When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny. -- Sam Claflin
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am. -- Debby Ryan
The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music. -- Guy Pearce
In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows. -- Nick Blaemire
I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things. -- Dianna Agron
The dream was to not only make a good-looking film that engaged, but also had the DNA of the show so the fans would love it and also as important had the opportunity to cross over out of the fans because of the price-point. You make a film that's 60 million dollars you can't just appeal to musical theater fans. -- Eric Fellner
Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! -- Nathan Lane
I wouldn't succeed at musical theater. -- David Duchovny
Musical theater is one of my passions. -- Patrick Wilson
I've found that musical theater is my passion. -- Samantha Barks
I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser. -- Paulo Costanzo
Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff. -- Rutina Wesley
Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater. -- Sam Tsui
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. -- Harold Prince
Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! -- Nathan Lane
I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City. -- Jane Krakowski
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big. -- Carly Simon
I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. -- Tatiana Maslany
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater. -- Diane Paulus
I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater -- Tavis Smiley
I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience. -- Jerry Herman
I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater. -- Aprilynne Pike
It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time. -- Bryan Batt
The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all. -- Cameron Mackintosh
I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from. -- Drew Lachey
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater. -- Neil Tennant
I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.' -- Sarah Shahi
I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project. -- Tatyana Ali
In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down. -- Kevin Richardson
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on. -- Harold Prince
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater. -- Zachary Levi
In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on. -- Marcia Gay Harden
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University. -- Tamara Tunie
I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all. -- Allison Williams
That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old. -- Debra Messing
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing. -- Jamie Blackley
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. -- Carlisle Floyd
I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing. -- Rob McClure
One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him. -- Rob McClure
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
I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies. -- Sara Paxton
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. -- Diane Paulus
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. -- Daniela Bobadilla
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. -- Alex Flinn
I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel every cell in my body. -- Kelly Stables
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
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical. -- Steve Earle
But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it. -- Elaine Paige
I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes. -- Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Hillary Clinton said that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is engaged in 'theater.' Which explains the new strategy to defeat him: casting him as the lead in 'Spider-Man: the Musical.' -- Jimmy Fallon
In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped. -- Eli Roth
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. -- Leslie Easterbrook
I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. -- Zac Efron
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. -- Cass McCombs

Send