Backgrounds Quote by Ben Nicholas

My first performance was as one of the orphans in 'Oliver!'

— Brad Hall

I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

— Lindsay Mendez

When I first started acting, I was actually working with the National Youth Theatre in London doing anti-knife crime workshops, so I was listening…

— Joe Cole

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.

— Karunas

I grew up in musicals actually, and the last show I did in Dublin, 'Alice in Funderland', was a musical, and one that was…

— Sarah Greene

I grew up performing in theatre.

— Valorie Curry

I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I…

— Lucy Griffiths

I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard…

— Michelle Williams

I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I compose the music according to the nature of the show. 'Peter Gunn's' focus was violence so that was my key.

— Henry Mancini

Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.'

— Joey Heatherton

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

— Brit Marling