Black women Quote by Hilton Als

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

— George C. Wolfe

Musicals have long given voice to outsiders and speak of experiences in our culture and environment.

— Marc Platt

I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is a focus…

— Sean Mahon

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

— Ismail Merchant

I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go to Broadway…

— Stephanie Mills

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be…

— Dane DeHaan

I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed…

— George C. Wolfe

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I kind of grew up on musicals, specifically, for whatever reason. They're something that really attracted me as a child.

— Rob Marshall

I'm not really into musicals.

— Christian Bale

Musicals allow a depth of emotion that you don't get in another form of acting, the chord changes, the lyrics really affect people, so…

— Michael Ball