There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They’re all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don’t interest me as much.
It wasn’t until high school that I actually started writing. I was in a lot of the school plays and musicals, and there was a lot of down time during rehearsals. I would go into the orchestra pit and mess around on the grand piano.
When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I’m a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor.
I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I’m a big fan of Broadway musicals.
I didn’t know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn’t a thing I did.
I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them.
I’ve auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn’t really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.
Musicals are just funny to me.
Lyrics can’t do what they do – or should do – when you’re creating a musical with rock lyrics. There’s plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
I would love to do Broadway. That was my original aim, when I first started acting when I was 13. I wanted to do stage; I wanted to do musicals.
For me, I like to be different. I didn’t want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other genres, like movies, books, art, and musicals. That’s how I made my style.
I’ve done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.
Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren’t they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I’m sorry haven’t come here.
I’m a pretty big dork. It’s crazy. I’m one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where ‘Rent’ was a big deal for me and for my friends.
Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those ‘old-timers’ ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of ‘Black Mecca’ are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.
When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
I would love for musicals to come back on the screen.
I’m open to the idea of doing more musicals if it’s one that I really enjoy.
Of course I’ve done musicals here in London.
I hate musicals, especially film musicals.
From musicals to plays, I was part of all things theatrical all through my school life in Chandigarh, and this helped me develop a strong love for theatre and acting. Even during college, I was active in the theatre scene and even founded two theatre groups.
I love musicals – that’s probably one of my most gay traits: that’s one of my giveaways!
I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.
Seth MacFarlane, he’s kind of an entertainment Everyman. He loves musicals, he loves joke-driven comedies, and animated stuff. He likes comedy-comedy.
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who’s been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations – the fantasy of freedom and resolve – and those dreams have little to do with the reality of most black women’s lives.
There’s something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I’m floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I’d put on my parents’ cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.
I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.
I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see ‘Tommy’ when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.
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.
I kind of feel like with a musical, there’s so few original musicals that people just don’t know what to expect.
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.
And, I’d never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
‘Grease’ was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.
A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there’s an antagonist number.
I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the ’40s and ’50s.
I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn’t do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like ‘Annie’ and ‘Wizard of Oz.’ I was always in the chorus.
I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, ‘When in doubt, sing loud.’ I’m a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that’s just my own tastes it’s nothing to do with the films.
You have to understand the medium you’re writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn’t necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
It used to be my ambition to emulate Fred Astaire on the stage and in motion picture musicals.
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
We didn’t go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
I started out doing musicals.
I know, for me, ‘Grease’ was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
I’m doing ‘Les Miserables,’ the movie. I’ve done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I’ve been like, ‘Come on, let’s do a movie/musical.’
I’ve been a performer for a long time, but I really don’t have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills… I was not good at it.
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
There were no TV musicals until we did Bette Midler ‘Gypsy,’ and the success of that opened the door for us to do the rest.
I love musicals. When they work, there’s nothing like it.
I’ve got quite a low voice, so it’s not your typical musical theater voice, but I do love musicals; they’re a very different experience.
Darling, when you’re as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
‘You Can’t Take It With You’ has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.
I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies.
I mean, I’ve done musicals, but it’s not my best thing.
Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn’t really get credit for those.
I’ve always been totally obsessed with theater – especially musicals.
Musicals are written in English, and then we import them to Japan. When we translate them into Japanese, the sounds of the language are completely different. The Japanese language is not the best for singing, in terms of sound.
I love musicals, but I find it’s just so deadening. You know, 30 takes, you do a little piece here and a little piece there. There’s hours and hours of waiting. And to me, that’s as far away from real performance as you can get.
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don’t think we’re gonna try to do that.
My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.
Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you can care about.
