Musical Theatre Quotes:

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

- David Naughton

topic: Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Real, Ambition, Musical, Musical Theatre

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

topic: College, Florida, Competition, Musical Theatre, Mime

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

- Carey Mulligan

topic: Play, Forever, Musical, Musical Theatre

There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.

- Stephanie D'Abruzzo

topic: Thinking, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

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

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Song, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

- Claude-Michel Schonberg

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Technology, Thinking, People, Musical Theatre

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Father, Musical, Acting, Musical Theatre, Baroque Music

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

source: "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.

topic: Mean, Musical, Theatre, Leisure Time, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Exercise, College, Gym Rats, Musical Theatre

When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

- Jason Mraz

topic: Strong, Growing Up, Musical, Musical Theatre

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

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Dog, Home, Heart, Tap Dancers, Musical Theatre

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

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Children, Musical, Theatre, Child Actors, Musical Theatre

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

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Thinking, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre, Theatre Actors

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

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Thinking, People, Musical, Musical Theatre

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.

source: Source: www.broadwaybullet.com

topic: Nerd, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

- Syesha Mercado

topic: Dream, Islands, Musical, Musical Theatre

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

- Ben Aaronovitch

topic: Dad, Mean, Musical, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Florida, Musical, Singing, Orlando, Sony

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

- Jake Gyllenhaal

topic: Musical, Theatre, Classic, Musical Theatre, Classic Movie

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Running, Play, Hair, Musical Theatre

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

- Toks Olagundoye

source: "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 20, 2013.

topic: School, College, Musical, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Drama, Grateful, Bored, Musical Theatre, Exciting Things

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

topic: Rocks, Play, Ballet, Clarinet, Musical Theatre

Musical theatre is my first love.

- Laura Benanti

topic: First Love, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

- Sarah Brightman

topic: Focus, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

- Gareth Gates

topic: Eight, Musical, Theatre, Live Performance, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Dad, Musical, Magic, Musical Theatre

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

- A. J. McLean

topic: Musical, Theatre, And Love, Musical Theatre

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

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Grey Matter, Musical, Theatre, Musical Theatre

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

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: People, Dancer, Musical, Musical Theatre

I was a tomboy growing up and then fell into the world of theatre and musical theatre. A girlfriend introduced me to yoga in college and I was hooked. I didn't really know anything about it except that it was the highlight of my week. I ended up graduating from the University of Virginia and moving to Los Angeles where I could continue acting and do a yoga teacher training. I went from practicing once or twice a week to several hours everyday. I loved it.

- Kathryn Budig

source: ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Teacher, Girlfriend, Growing Up, Highlights, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Song, Night, Long Ago, Bangkok, Musical Theatre

I want to get a handle on the music. There's only so much you can do alone. I want everyone else there. I can't wait until we feel we've got it down and we can really figure out what it's all about! I can't wait to meet Harvey Keitel, too! I'm so used to working with musical theatre people... I'm really curious how he works. He's the only one that doesn't sing in the show - he acts and weaves himself through the show as the ring-master. I hope I learn something from him.

- Max von Essen

topic: People, Waiting, Musical, Musical Theatre

My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!

- Francesca Jackson

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: School, Player, Class, Dance Class, Musical Theatre

When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

- Sarah Steele

topic: Jesus, Home, Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Long, Musical, Age, Musical Theatre

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

- Elaine Paige

source: "SPECIAL PREVIEW: InDepth InterView - Elaine Paige". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2010.

topic: Dream, Writing, Musical, Musical Theatre

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

- Idina Menzel

topic: Musical, Theatre, Truth Is, Musical Theatre

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

topic: Powerful, Latin, Rap, Musical Theatre, Infusion

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

source: "Soundtrack to my life: Andrew Lloyd Webber". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

topic: Writing, College, People, Musical Theatre, Grime

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

source: "Indepth Interview: Julian Ovenden Talks Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies, Sunday in Paris, Downton Abbey, Smash, 1st Night & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. April 20, 2013.

topic: Singing, Musical, Style, Musical Theatre

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just did this Offenbach operetta at the LA Opera. I love it. I just love it. For me, it's like a great mesh of musical theatre and my classical oboe background to be standing on these huge stages with a full orchestra and all the opulence. I'm a complete sucker for the over-the-topness.

- Jason Graae

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Musical, Theatre, Oboes, Opulence, Musical Theatre