Broadway Musical Quotes:

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

topic: Musical, Auditions, Magazines, Premieres, Hairspray

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

topic: Winning, Awards, Musical, Broadway Musical

To love another person is to see the face of God.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Happy Valentines Day, Faces, Jean Valjean, Bridal Shower

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

- Stephen Schwartz

topic: Friendship, People, Wicked, Wicked The Musical, Broadway Musical

We can't all come and go by Bubble!

- Stephen Schwartz

source: "Fictional character: Elphaba Thropp". Broadway musical "Wicked", May 28, 2003.

topic: Wicked, Wicked The Musical, Comes And Goes, Broadway Musical

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

- Shepherd Mead

source: Title of book (1952)

topic: Book, Trying, Succeed, Musical Theater, Broadway Musical

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

- Stephen Schwartz

topic: Heart, Stories, Handprints, Elphaba, Wicked The Musical

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

- Julia Barr

topic: Musical, Roles, Broadway, Cabaret, Broadway Musical

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

topic: Kids, Gay, Broadway, Broadway Musical

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

source: Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1986.

topic: Thrill, Broadway, Remember, Broadway Musical

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

- Paul Rudnick

topic: Children, Taken, Helping Others, Felons, Broadway Musical

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

source: "Anna Camp Pushes Her Boundaries in 'Pitch Perfect' and 'The Mindy Project'". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.backstage.com. October 9, 2012.

topic: Art, Jobs, New York, Salem, Broadway Musical

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

topic: Kings, Two, Musical, Lion King, Broadway Musical

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

topic: Hate, Broadway, Stuff, Broadway Musical

I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Writing, Perfect, Ears, Broadway Musical

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

topic: Sweet, Jobs, Real, Uptown, Lowbrow

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

topic: Kids, Gay, Vitality, Cuban Music, Broadway Musical

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

topic: Stars, Broadway, Vaudeville, Broadway Musical

For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the type of show I am giving. I could pull references from Broadway musicals, Rock Steady Crew, a Jamaican dancehall or gentlemen's club, etc. all within one show. It truly is a playground with no restrictions for me.

- Mya

topic: Summer, Vanity, Rocks, Dancehall, Jamaicans

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.

- Colin Meloy

source: "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

topic: Writing, Wine, Iron, Broadway Musical

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

- Muhammad Ali

source: "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

topic: Thinking, Singing, Musical, Broadway Musical

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where it all started. Go back and look at history. Look at why the shows you are loving today happened and the artists you are listening to happened. And do your homework on history. Whether it's musical movies, musical plays, Broadway musical recordings - do your homework! And then, that way you will have an understanding of why, now, certain movies, certain plays, certain musicals are making some sort of sense.

- Lorna Luft

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Artist, Play, Careers, Why Now, Broadway Musical

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

- Ozzy Osbourne

source: Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

topic: Musical, Rasputin, Broadway, Broadway Musical

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

- David Bowie

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Men, Elephants, Musical, Theatrics, Elephant Man

A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

- Adam Gopnik

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Book, Charlie Hebdo, Musical, Cartoon Shows, Broadway Musical

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

source: "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

topic: Song, Rocks, Creating, Broadway Musical

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, Musical, Big Fish, Broadway Musical

Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

- Lloyd Kaufman

source: Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

topic: Broadway Musical

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

topic: Dream, Thinking, Voice, Broadway Musical

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

topic: Writing, Broadway, Berlin, Gershwin, Broadway Musical

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

source: "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.

topic: Musical, Would Be, Broadway, Super Cool, Broadway Musical

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

- Norm MacDonald

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

topic: Gay, Broadway, Knows, Broadway Musical

'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

topic: Stars, Kings, Swings, Lion King, Hairspray

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

source: "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Giving, Musical, Broadway Musical