Broadway Shows Quotes:

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

- Babyface

topic: Say Anything, Broadway, Shows, Broadway Shows

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

- Bea Arthur

topic: Cutting, Teeth, Broadway, Broadway Shows

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

- Bette Davis

topic: Broadway, Reason, Broadway Shows

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

- Stephen Sondheim

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

topic: Country, Broadway, Used, Dumbing Down, Broadway Shows

There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

- Thomas Bangalter

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Night, Two, Musical, Broadway Shows, Shuffle

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

- Sparky Anderson

topic: Sports, People, Complaining, Broadway Shows

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

- Marian Burros

topic: Kitchen, Dining, Dresses, Dining Rooms, Broadway Shows

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

- Bebe Neuwirth

topic: Hair, Broadway, Saws, Broadway Shows

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

- Victor Garber

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

topic: People, Trying, World, Broadway Shows

When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

- Maggie Grace

source: "Maggie Grace on Her Broadway Debut in 'Picnic'". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. JAnuary 18, 2013.

topic: Broadway, Shows, Broadway Shows

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

- Lance Bass

topic: Broadway, Want, Toys, Broadway Shows

I did a couple of little Off-Broadway things, but my first Broadway show was A History Of The American Film, written by Chris Durang. Swoosie Kurtz was one of the stars. It was a wonderful show. It closed in 40 performances. I think it was kind of ahead of its time.

- Brent Spiner

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Stars, Couple, Thinking, Broadway Shows

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

- Dave Brubeck

topic: Country, Fusion, Broadway, Broadway Shows

Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

- Olesya Rulin

topic: Broadway, London, Saws, Billy Elliot, Broadway Shows

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

- Bryan Batt

topic: Titles, Broadway, Cups, Engraved, Mint Juleps

I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out into the - allow it to reach the target audience, who can't necessarily spend $120 to come see it.

- Katherine Shindle

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Hate, Thinking, Expression, Think Outside The Box, Outside The Box

I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.

- Tyler Perry

source: "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

topic: Thinking, People, Fans, Broadway Shows

I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.

- Tituss Burgess

topic: Dream, New York, Nice, Full Circle, Last Five Years

I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in the industry if you do film and TV because the audience is larger, and because the work can be seen for a longer period of time. I did solid work in a series of regional and Off-Broadway shows, but the work I did on TV or film will have a longer life with a larger audience (and with services like Netflix). Ultimately, there's something intimate about TV, because the storytelling and the actors come home with the viewer. It can be powerful because of that.

- Steven C. Harper

topic: Wise, Powerful, Home, Traction, Longer Life

I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.

- Adam Jacobs

topic: Fuel, Broadway, Saws, Broadway Shows

Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."

- Robin Williams

topic: Night, Men, Broadway, Lost Cause, Broadway Shows

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

- Martin McDonagh

topic: People, Broadway, Facts, Broadway Shows

If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.

- Tenzin Palmo

topic: Character, Thinking, Age, Broadway Shows

Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

- John Lahr

topic: Awards, Talking, Play, Metropolitan, Broadway Shows

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

- John Lahr

topic: Sports, New York, Team, Broadway Shows

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Father, Laughing, Broadway, Broadway Shows, Laughing So Hard

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Broadway, Shows, Broadway Shows

Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

- Penn Jillette

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

topic: Book, Doe, Broadway, Broadway Shows

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

- Lea Michele

topic: Long, Done, Broadway, Les Miz, Broadway Shows

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

- Lea Michele

topic: Spring, Night, Awakening, Every Night, Spring Awakening

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

- Natalie Portman

topic: Dream, Real, Class, Broadway Shows

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

- Betty White

topic: Long, Sound, Doe, Broadway Shows

I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

- Jack Kerouac

topic: Broadway, Fats, Shows, Broadway Shows

Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

- Bea Arthur

topic: Animal, Two, Hands, Broadway Shows

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

- Horace Silver

topic: Music, Swings, Bebop, Broadway Shows

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

- Jesse Tyler Ferguson

topic: First Love, Love Is, Roots, Broadway Shows

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

- Dennis Christopher

topic: Theatre, Broadway, Legends, Broadway Shows

If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful playing. If I'm home in New York at night, I'm either at a Broadway or an Off Broadway show. We're in the theater capital of the world, and if you don't get it, you're an idiot.

- Joan Rivers

source: "Joan Rivers on the Allure and Magic of New York City" by Joan Rivers, www.vulture.com. September 4, 2014.

topic: New York, Home, Night, Broadway Shows

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

- John Guare

topic: New York, Cities, Numbers, Broadway Shows

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

- Alice Barrett

topic: Broadway, Shows, Broadway Shows

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

- David Copperfield

topic: Broadway, Starting, Shows, Sneak, Broadway Shows

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

- Richard Foreman

topic: Age, Trying, Use, Broadway Shows

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

- Skylar Astin

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

topic: Couple, Theatre, Acting, Broadway Shows

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

- Bernadette Peters

topic: Broadway, Vivid, Firsts, Carousels, Broadway Shows

Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.

- Dave Koz

source: Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

topic: Opportunity, Color, Purple, Broadway Shows

A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.

- David Copperfield

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Teenager, Years, Grease, Pippin, Fosse

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

- Lorna Luft

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Home, Night, Thinking, Broadway Shows

I did my first Broadway show when I was nineteen years old - and to be able to say that I am still working with the incredible talents of all of the creative teams that I have been able to work with - that's so special to me.

- Lorna Luft

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Team, Years, Creative, Special To Me, Creative Team

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

- Jon Gordon

topic: Broadway, Gigs, Months, Broadway Shows

When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

- Naturi Naughton

source: "Naturi Naughton Interview with Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Art, Writing, Museums, Broadway Shows