Animated Quote by Alan Menken

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much, you…

— Alan Menken

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether…

— John Kander

It's much easier to write a song for a musical than just writing a song because, writing for a musical, you know what the…

— Leslie Bricusse

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it…

— Eli Roth

The point of songs in theater is that you're supposed to end up in a different place than where you started.

— Barrett Wilbert Weed

When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions…

— Kelli O'Hara

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in…

— Stephen Sondheim

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer,…

— Stephen Sondheim

The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

— A. O. Scott

In a song you can kind of stage-manage everything so that it puts you in a good light. And once a song is recorded,…

— Jarvis Cocker

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of…

— David Raiklen

The premise that we're working with is that when most people go to a show, they're not really watching what's going on onstage. They…

— Bob Weir