Audience Quote by Maurice Sendak

Growing up in California, my best friend was Morris Rabinowitz and we often went to the Yiddish Theater.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something…

— Katherine Jenkins

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

— Mandy Patinkin

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 loved 'Les Miz' and 'Into the Woods' - I used to cast 'Into the Woods' with my friends, even if they'd never stepped…

— Rory O'Malley

I think I actually did a production of "Under Milkwood," this Welsh play, with my drama group (at school), and I always remember taking…

— Felicity Jones

My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of which I…

— Joel Grey

Sondheim's work especially, and musical theater like that, just spoke to me so much and taught me so many lessons.

— Randy Rainbow

I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the…

— Ken Loach

I was a huge theater nerd when I was younger, so I was in a bunch of school musicals - Working,' South Pacific,' Fiddler…

— Leigh Bardugo

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with…

— Tony Danza

I started singing when I was three - my mother would teach me some versions of 'Thirupugazh.' And I loved being on stage.

— Sid Sriram