Music Quote by Vincente Minnelli

That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

— Vincente Minnelli

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

— Tim Rice

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

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.

— James Lapine

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

— Vincente Minnelli

On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there…

— Luke Evans

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

— John Mellencamp

We'd go to studios with ideas to do movie musicals and they'd literally kick us out. They said, 'Audiences aren't interested in movie musicals.…

— Craig Zadan

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

There's something about being a part of Broadway and going backstage. You know, like when I go to see a show now and going…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

— Vincente Minnelli

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