I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway – maybe a musical, maybe my own show.
I’d love to do Broadway or the West End. I’m sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a lot of stage shows in Sydney and I love performing live.
I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o’clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o’clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.
I’ve been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
Broadway doesn’t mean anything in Los Angeles.
I’ve never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it’s because Chicago doesn’t have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.
I don’t really want to be known as just the puppet girl or just a singing ventriloquist. I want to be known as the performer, singer, ventriloquist, actress, Broadway star, all of it. I want do it all.
I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I’m an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.
I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in ’73. It’s one of the most precious things I’ve won.
I’ve been really, really fortunate to get some fantastic opportunities on Broadway, and I cherish all of them.
It was during my first trip to America in 1953 – that’s when I learned to visit museums. I was then 26 years old. When I travel, the first thing I do is to visit museums. When I go to New York City, I usually go to Broadway to see the shows.
Oh, I miss the excitement and immediacy of Broadway and the theaters.
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There’s not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what’s being offered.
I coach young people. I have a group called BTP – Broadway Theatre Project.
Motion pictures are a director’s medium. Broadway is a writer’s medium. Television is a producer’s medium. I picked a medium I could control.
My mom was always so supportive; she enabled me to pursue my dreams. I danced on Broadway as a kid, and she would never miss a show.
My father is a South African actor who danced in broadway musicals for ‘Lion King.’
Maybe I’ll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.
Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.
I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
I’d love to do a Broadway show, but I can’t because of the style I sing.
I was in ‘Grease’ on Broadway, toured with ‘Wicked,’ was off Broadway a couple of times and have been a part of numerous readings and workshops.
Sidney Poitier was directing a film called ‘Hanky Panky.’ And he said, ‘Do you want to come with me to New York to see Gilda Radner in ‘Lunch Hour’ on Broadway? I said, ‘I don’t need to see her, I love her. I’ve wanted to write something for her for a long time. So it’s OK by me.’
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together – wham – like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.
Oh God, I would love to do Broadway, but I’m unfortunately not a very good singer.
‘Story of My Life’ was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don’t know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.
It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It’s what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, ‘You know what? You’re going to be our girl.’
To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show – it’s one of the mountains I wanted to climb.
Broadway really inspired me to want to act.
That’s why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
When I’m abroad, I burn all my money on Broadway.
I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We’d go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.
All forms are complex once you get to a really high level, and jazz and hip-hop are so connected. In hip-hop, you sample, while in jazz, you take Broadway tunes and turn them into something different. They’re both forms that repurpose other forms of music.
Going to Broadway – then to be invited to the Tonys – I really tap into what that feels like now to fulfill lifetime goals.
For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.
I don’t think I’ve got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. ‘Hair’ and ‘Rent’ might be my favorites.
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That’s how I started with doo-wop. Now I’ve come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That’s astounding to me. And horrifying to me.
I remember going on iTunes and ‘Hamilton’ was like the number one rap album, above like Fetty Wap, which is just impossible, like a Broadway cast album.
I would absolutely be interested in doing a Broadway production if it was the right project. But my dream is to be writing pieces of theater for my best friends and putting on plays in New York City and seeing our vision come alive. I just hope to always be creating.
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It’s so funny. What is that? I don’t even know. But I loved it.
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination – this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Alan Jay Lerner needed a hit. The Broadway lyricist and librettist was a decade removed from his greatest successes when his partnership with composer Frederick Loewe produced something approaching unholy alchemy.
I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
There’s a mythical status to the Tony Awards. When you’re growing up as an actor, you hear about Broadway and the Tonys, but it’s not something you ever expect to experience.
Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as ‘A Great Big World,’ and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as ‘our music on steroids.’
I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
I did ‘Fences’ off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it’s amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
I’ve had offers for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, but I do not want to take just any musical. I want the musical that’s right for me when I’m right for it.
I’ve never lived in New York. I’ve never done a play off or on Broadway, so I think that’s in my future. Have that experience – get a little apartment in the city and grow a beard and walk around with earbuds in my ears, and a stocking cap and a big giant scarf.
Acting is a different beast on screen. I’m excited to explore that. But, of course, it’s an honor to be part of the Broadway community. It’s a dream just to be here.
I love ‘Bullets Over Broadway,’ but I’m pretty sure Woody Allen hasn’t killed somebody.
Trey Parker did ‘Book of Mormon.’ It’s the best Broadway show I’ve ever seen. He does ‘South Park.’ It’s wonderful.
That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.
When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for ‘The Color Purple,’ and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!
What a turnaround in sentiment ‘Glee’ exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.
‘Dancin’ was exceptionally significant. I was in an original Broadway show and nominated for a Tony.
My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.’ It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.
I spent 15 years of not being able to get a job creating a role on Broadway.
I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
