The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet…

“If we can understand each other, then is anything really beyond our reach?”

— Pearl North

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album,…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I only know how to write musicals.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“[HAMILTON] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I remember really getting into 'The Wiz' and an old musical called 'Purlie,' which Melba Moore sang. I liked those roof-raising shows because I…

— Norbert Leo Butz

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

— Josh Dallas

Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and…

— Tracie Bennett

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.

— James Lapine

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

— Sarah Lancashire

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk…

— Thomas Sangster

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense…

— George C. Wolfe

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care…

— Dennis DeYoung

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes…

— Richard Corliss