Quotes About Musicals

I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, 'The Boyfriend.' In my high school, we did mainly musicals, so I just started doing nothing but musicals for years and loved it.

When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, 'Let's have a good time' shows.

I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.

Alice Ripley was someone who had had a huge effect on me when I had gotten out of college and decided that this was the road I wanted to take - to write musicals.

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

I remember really getting into 'The Wiz' and an old musical called 'Purlie,' which Melba Moore sang. I liked those roof-raising shows because I connected deeply with the gospel aspects of those musicals.

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

I have not forgotten about my dreams to become a singer. If given the chance, I want to take part in a drama OST making and also try out for musicals.

I love musicals. I'm a big 'Glee' watcher.

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'

I grew up doing a lot of theatre, plays, dramas, musicals.

It rests in the hands of 'Dreamgirls' and 'Hairspray.' If they're successful, we'll be back on track - people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don't work, then you're going to see everyone go back to the way it was before 'Chicago.'

We're finding that the casting of 'A Few Good Men' is different from the musicals because the kind of actors that you need to do it are movie actors, basically.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.

I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals.

Outside football, I like to go to musicals or the theatre. My favourite one is the 'Jersey Boys.'

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.