Block Quote by Stephin Merritt

As a performer, once you've understood the genre of musical theatre, you can tire very quickly of the two-dimensional stuff. With Sondheim, it's always…

— Michael Ball

I think that theater is the closest medium to music. It's very pure. It's for the elite of the society. It's not for everyone…

— Asghar Farhadi

There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

— Simon McBurney

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine…

— Colin Meloy

“Show tunes are great. Stephen Sondheim. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Wicked. Rent. The Music Man. Almost any musical will do. Except Cats.” “Why? Doesn’t it…

— Connie Willis

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work.…

— Tony Kushner

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing…

— Howard Jacobson

I still love certain musicals, like Sondheim and 'Cabaret.'

— Sophie Thatcher

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That…

— Claude-Michel Schonberg

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing…

— Colin Meloy

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there…

— Tim Curry