Words matter. These are the best Michael Gracey Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Greatest Showman’ would be an amazing Broadway hit.
I was introduced to Zendaya by one of the executives at Fox, and like every single person who’s met her, you completely fall in love with her talent and her maturity.
It’s really strange, this thing where people are like, ‘I’m not into musicals’ but so many people who have said that to me, I’ve taken to shows and watched their faces radiate.
To get ‘The Greatest Showman’ greenlit, we had to get everyone into New York City to hear a read through, where we’d read through the script and sing it.
The biggest thing is to overcommunicate your vision. It’s so important to have real clarity as to what is inside your head, and sometimes that’s really terrifying for people.
I’d love if between ‘La La Land’ and ‘The Greatest Showman’ we generate a new wave of movie musicals because, as an art form, musical narrative is so engaging and has produced some of the most iconic moments in cinema history.
I’d be very surprised if ‘The Greatest Showman’ didn’t end up on Broadway at some point.
People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like ‘Hamilton,’ started off-Broadway.
There is something about musical narrative and Australians. If you want to do something, you kind of have to do it at a level – because we’re so far away from everywhere else – that exceeds what is just normal if you want to convince people that some guy from Australia is worth backing for an original musical.
So many Hollywood adaptations of really popular manga series just don’t get it right, and for me what was really important was that if I was gonna do ‘Naruto,’ I wanted to actually work with Kishimoto and get a script to a stage where he would look at it and be excited about realizing it.
The power of music is undeniable.
There’s something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate.
I’m as thrilled watching Mark Rylance do Shakespeare as I am watching ‘The Book of Mormon.’
I kind of feel like with a musical, there’s so few original musicals that people just don’t know what to expect.
At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.
