Quotes About Musicals

I do like musicals, but I'm not so well-versed in them. I would rather tell stories that just so happen to have a song in them, like someone has a cabaret number.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

Seth MacFarlane, he's kind of an entertainment Everyman. He loves musicals, he loves joke-driven comedies, and animated stuff. He likes comedy-comedy.

I did three musicals in high school.

I've been choreographed in various musicals before. So I'm not completely two left feet.

I have done a couple of musicals myself over the years but have never done a Stephen Schwartz show, and I never thought I would be writing one.

It's expensive to produce musicals on television.

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.

The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all the groundwork for me.

I remember coming into 'The Lion King' and, oh forgive me Lord, but doubting it. The way that musicals are put together, we're kind of exclusive of each other. And so somebody's working on this in one room, and somebody's working that in the other room. I did not understand how all this was going to come together.

I grew up in musicals actually, and the last show I did in Dublin, 'Alice in Funderland', was a musical, and one that was written around my voice, which was nice.

I never got interested in musicals.

We should be so grateful for musicals, and the amount of work that goes into these shows is easily comparable to things I've been in at the National and the RSC. Why do we think it is less important?.

I've always loved singing, and wanted to do musicals. Watching them as a child was what convinced me that I wanted to be a professional.

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

We already tried writing musicals. Sometimes that failure can become a cause for us. We had so much passion for the idea of doing a movie musical that it finally happened.

TV has the unique opportunity to take musicals, live events, so it has that feeling and excitement and spontaneity, but still has a camera between you and what you are watching.

So way back, Jonathan and I were - we were entertainers as kids. We were actors; we did theater, musicals; we ended up getting into commercials and some TV spots. Actually, one of our jobs, we were clowns.

The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.

Shows I would love to do one day are definitely In the Heights' and Spring Awakening,' with Nina and Wendla, respectively, as my top dream roles.

I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.' It's such a clever thing to stage. Parents would have read this when they were young and will want to share it with their children because they have such a fondness for the source.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.