Action Quote by Jerome Kern

Normally, for a musical, the first step with my collaborators is to figure out the story and the outline and really be clear about…

— Stephen Schwartz

Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves…

— Alessandro Nivola

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

— Horace Silver

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making…

— Jerome Lawrence

With musical theatre, although there are rules, they're so different to the ones I feel like I have accidentally been ingrained with writing pop…

— Sara Bareilles

You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It…

— George Chakiris

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted…

— Norman Jewison

Music is a defining element of character.

— Plato

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could…

— Frank Wildhorn

It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.

— Jeet Gannguli

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

— Alice Ripley