Grateful Quote by Sheila Hancock

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

— Sheila Hancock

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

— Vincente Minnelli

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism,…

— Gene Kelly

I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and far between, and it's important to…

— Rob Marshall

I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

— Julie Andrews

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

— Roger Taylor

I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of…

— Hal Price

Most successful musicals need to attach themselves to something bigger than themselves, a concept that will make people feel immediately connected to it.

— Alan Menken

If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull…

— Alan Menken

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era…

— Carmen Ejogo

A lot of people, especially from my generation, don't like musicals because they feel so much has been put in there for no reason.

— Peaches

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal…

— Stephen Sondheim