Quotes About Musical

In a musical, I believe that choreographers are under a great deal of pressure. There's not always the freedom to do what you want to do, because if it ends up being too long the dance breaks are the first thing that will go, because you can't make the story shorter.

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

I think Pearl Jam, greatly inspired by The Who, really did become a sort of musical conscience of a generation. I love such passionate songs as 'Not for You,' 'Wishlist,' and 'Long Road.'

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

In college, I actually majored in Musical Theater. I was pursuing a BFA in Musical Theater.

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

The one thing I have always felt about musical theatre is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, about construction.

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.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

I grew up doing certain little things in the musical theatre realm, but I didn't really understand that you could... make a career out of it.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!