I did ‘Eubie!’ on Broadway with the Hines brothers, ‘Comin’ Uptown’ with Gregory Hines, and then ‘Hairspray.’
I’d love to do something on Broadway. I’d love to spend some time in New York.
I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
I’ve done a lot of Broadway plays, and I’m fortunate they’ve all been so successful.
Now that I’m on Broadway, it’s like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, ‘Venus in Fur’; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.
I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.
I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing ‘Blood Brothers’ on Broadway with my brother Shaun.
I loved being a film executive. But something was always missing for me. I always had the feeling that I was looking over my shoulder – what’s going on on Broadway?
I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
I am very much looking forward to new adventures – including, I hope, Broadway – sooner rather than later.
There have been several television movies, ‘Carrie 2,’ two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, ‘Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that’s not really the audience.’
I started out doing musical theater specifically – I thought I would eventually move to New York and audition for stuff, and maybe wind up on Broadway or something. Well, that didn’t happen.
I don’t think a solo album is me. I don’t consider my voice to be that kind of a voice. Not that I don’t love singing, but Broadway was my original dream. That’s what I’ve always wanted to do.
I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in ‘Big River.’
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
The majority of great work that’s being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can’t make a living.
I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I’m kind of a contemporary guy. I don’t think you want to see me in ‘Raisin in the Sun’.
I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg – that’s me – into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn’t fit.
I directed this movie ‘Jewtopia’ that was based on a show I wrote which played Off Broadway for a number of years. I was trapped in ‘Jewtopia’; it wasn’t the film I wanted to make.
My parents had normal jobs, and I didn’t just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn’t have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, ‘I have to be able to sing.’
There’s only one Broadway and that’s in New York City.
Broadway! Broad-way! I don’t aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
I’ve been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When ‘American Buffalo’ came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, ‘How dare he use that kind of language!’ Of course I’m alienating the public! That’s what they pay me for.
I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.
I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.
I don’t want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.
I’m not a singer or a dancer, my Broadway dreams are ridiculous.
And, I’d never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
I could see no position to say, ‘I’m going to make a living as a writer.’ But I went to classes for it; I read every play in ‘Theater’ magazine. I saw the second acts of everything on Broadway – I had a job as a CBS usher in New York City, and on my way home every night, I’d see what shows I could get into.
I’ve always wanted to do Broadway.
I’m an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing ‘Hair’ and Shakespeare in the Park.
My mother’s side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.
My aim is to bridge Broadway and the R&B world; and to bring all my Broadway experience to the R&B world; and one day, when I go back to Broadway, to bring some R&B to that.
And I don’t consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial – that’s what it is. It’s expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as far as I’m concerned, is in New York the pride of New York theater.
Broadway is such a beautiful community, both with the people who do it and the people who go see it.
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don’t like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
I hoped, hoped, that maybe I’d be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.
I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.
Broadway was life-changing because it pushes you mentally, physically, emotionally – every way that you can be pushed. It makes you feel like there’s nothing you can’t do. It’s like doing your own stunts.
What about Broadway? Yes, I’m involved with a new musical based on ‘The Adams Family.’
I worked out the keyboard parts on the progressive rock classic ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway’ and somehow managed to play it all on acoustic guitar.
When ‘Catch Me If You Can’ was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What’s amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.
I’m making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 – it’s a kind of interesting career arc.
I’ve been looking for a Broadway opportunity ever since I stopped doing theater.
These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or more is daunting, I love it. It’s my church and raises my spirit. It’s good for my soul.
I wore out the Broadway ‘Tommy’ recording. I just loved it.
When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it’s a much shorter process.
I’ll never forget the first moment I stepped on a Broadway stage. It was in Grease, and I knew it was momentous. My parents were there, and I got into a cab with them afterward and started crying.
As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. ‘Spring Awakening’ kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams – beyond my wildest dreams.
One of my dreams has always been to be in a Broadway musical.
I booked my first national tour of a Broadway show right out of college. It was the tap show, ’42nd Street.’ I had only been tap dancing for three years when I booked that show.
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
You make more money in dinner theaters than on Broadway.
I just love the idea of doing an all-female play on Broadway.
I love Broadway musicals, but there’s a lot that I want to do.
I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.
The possibilities are endless for me – Broadway, TV, music and film.
I’ve never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you’re on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And that’s the feeling I’ve always had.
For me, there’s nothing more valuable as an actor, or better way to learn, than getting to perform in front of a live audience, no matter where you are. Whether it’s on Broadway, in Florida, or doing a tour.
