Musical theatre Quotes · Page 2

I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that;…

— Taron Egerton

My mother was majorly into musical theatre - that's how this happened. That's how I became the gayest person in the world.

— Randy Rainbow

I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often.

— Lindsay Mendez

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I…

— Patti LuPone

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

— Tituss Burgess

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

— Caroline Flack

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

— Shannon Lee

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children.…

— Laura Benanti

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele…

— Rebel Wilson

I have written a lot of musical theatre over my life - two Olivier Award-winning musicals - and I still don't think…

— Tim Minchin

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about…

— John Gallagher, Jr

There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification,…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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

— Diana DeGarmo

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're…

— Laura Benanti

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I…

— Wesley Snipes

I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers…

— Laura Benanti

As a performer, once you've understood the genre of musical theatre, you can tire very quickly of the two-dimensional stuff. With Sondheim,…

— Michael Ball

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think…

— Renee Elise Goldsberry

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient.…

— Roger Taylor

But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and…

— Jason Graae

I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create…

— Christine Lakin

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

— Tim Rice

Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.

— Jason Priestley

“I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.”

— E. Lockhart

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

— Elaine Paige

I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'

— Karla Crome

I went to the University of Michigan and have a BFA in Musical Theatre.

— Helene Yorke

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

— Gareth Gates

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

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.

— Sam Smith

I don't think it was ever a conscious decision to go into musical theatre. It just felt like the natural progression.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

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

— Kelis

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

— Anne-Marie

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

— Ben Aaronovitch

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

— Carey Mulligan

It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.

— Jake Shears

I've done a lot of musical theatre, but I equate 'Mr. Cinders' a lot with why I became an actor.

— Denis Lawson