Quotes About Musical

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

'The Rocky Horror Show' was actually my first musical love.

I'd always been a huge fan of Stephen Schwartz.

My equally peerless memory allows as to how she included you in that base canard." "Would that be a musical instrument? Might we find it in the orchestra pit? What kind of musician plays the bass canard?

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.

It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

Because I am the biggest musical theater nerd, I worship Sondheim.

Ah, 'Kismet,' or Carry On Camel, as we called it. I thought the show was shocking. It was the worst designed production ever but it's got a fantastic score. It's not an awfully good book though. You really have to work hard to eke out any laughs from that script.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Love me some Tom Kitt; he's awesome in every way.

'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

I don't think the expectation is that the 'Psych' musical is going to be 'Rent,' so I think as long as we didn't completely humiliate ourselves and it is funny and it is in the tone of what we do, we'd have a fighting chance of pulling it off.

I would totally, if Alan Cumming is tired of doing Cabaret, I'd be like, 'I'll do it tonight.' I would have such a good time doing that.

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

'Kiss Me, Kate' was my 'Ragtime' Tony.

In 2011, I earned a Tony nomination for my role in 'The Book of Mormon.'

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But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

Doing a musical is not just acting. It's total theater. When you have to justify the enormous projection of energy it takes to just go into song and dance, you realized why it's such a humbling experience every time you go into a show.