Backstage Quote by Vincente Minnelli

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience. That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of…

— Vincente Minnelli

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

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

— Vincente Minnelli

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

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

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 don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a…

— Ed Westwick

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

— Tim Rice

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.

— James Lapine

I would just do musicals if there was that opportunity.

— Melissa Barrera

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

— Cory Michael Smith

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