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Musical theatre is my first love. -- Laura Benanti
I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage. -- A. J. McLean
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week. -- Gareth Gates
I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre. -- Sarah Brightman
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? -- Patti LuPone
I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare. -- Sheridan Smith
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 used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. -- Wesley Snipes
When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic. -- Nia Vardalos
I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky. -- Mandy Moore
The truth is I love musical theatre and always have. -- Idina Menzel
I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college. -- Toks Olagundoye
Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. -- David Naughton
My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre! -- Kelis
I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities. -- Jennifer Damiano
I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always. -- Carey Mulligan
My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre. -- Ben Aaronovitch
I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people. -- Richard C. Armitage
I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated. -- Laura Benanti
I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role. -- Rebel Wilson
I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people. -- Josie Loren
I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared. -- Bertie Carvel
I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business. -- Gareth Gates
I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre. -- John Gallagher, Jr.
I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.' -- Allison Williams
I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance. -- Laura Benanti
My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me. -- Antonia Thomas
There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time. -- Laura Benanti
Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it. -- Gareth Gates
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre. -- Samantha Barks
It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style. -- Julian Ovenden
I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future. -- Sarah Brightman
Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me. -- Toni Servillo
I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much! -- Josh Young
I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body. -- Christine Lakin
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you. -- Laura Benanti
I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island. -- Syesha Mercado
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater. -- Rachael MacFarlane
I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is. -- Christopher Walken
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver. -- Annaleigh Ashford
You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre. -- Elaine Paige
I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience. -- Simon McBurney
I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work. -- Brooke Elliott
I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text. -- Glenn Branca
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training. -- Christopher Walken
I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context. -- Christian Campbell
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form. -- Harold Prince
Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners. -- Ruthie Henshall
I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type. -- Erica Schroeder
I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading. -- Amanda Marshall
Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter. -- Christian Campbell
We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago. -- Nikka Graff Lanzarone
After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.' -- Laura Osnes

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