Quotes About Musical

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

It is easy to misunderstand what a comedy song is, or what its potential is. I'm used to musical comedy being maligned as an easy artform.

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

'Hamilton' is a game-changer for the musical theater genre. It's moved the art form forward so much and redefined so many things about what we do in theater, so it's pretty hard to oversell it.

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.

I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.

I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.

My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.

I am concerned about the musical theater, selfishly, because I love it.