Musical theater Quotes · Page 3

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

— Jerry Herman

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

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

— Beanie Feldstein

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

— Sam Tsui

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

— Lara Pulver

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is…

— Claude-Michel Schonberg

I've always liked musical theater, and getting to do stuff like that where I can just dance around and just be crazy…

— Josie Totah

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to…

— Alexander Koch

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in…

— Christopher Walken

I clearly had a career in musical theater ahead of me and somewhere took a left turn and started getting all dour…

— Rege-Jean Page

Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show.…

— Laura Benanti

I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to…

— Cristin Milioti

I trained classically for 11 years and then studied musical theater at AMDA New York. My dad is a singer-songwriter, so I…

— Madeline Brewer

One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

I always loved to sing, and my mom was always doing musical theater, and my dad was always with his acoustic guitar…

— Susan Tedeschi

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership…

— Dianna Agron

I was like, 'I'm only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I'm never going to do TV.'…

— Gaten Matarazzo

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical…

— Kurt Weill

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that…

— Guy Pearce

Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple…

— Laufey

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

— Idina Menzel

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

— Jane Krakowski

I went to school for musical theater, and that is such a huge, central part of me.

— Helene Yorke

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

— GloZell

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

— Tavis Smiley

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

— Jake Johnson

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

— Debra Messing

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

— Katee Sackhoff

If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then…

— Jaime Camil

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

— Joel Grey

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

— Betty Buckley

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

— Harold Prince

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— Shepherd Mead

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

— Drew Lachey