Top 1200 Musical Theatre Quotes & Sayings

Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre.

Musical theatre is my first love.

There was a saying going around the theatre: It's a train, and you can jump on at any point whether you're a lover of musical theatre or a lover of theatre or a lover of hip-hop or a lover of history - there was a way to jump on the train.

I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

I went to the University of Michigan and have a BFA in Musical Theatre.

I wound up graduating from the Los Angeles County School for the Arts as a theatre major and then was honored to be accepted into Carnegie Mellon's Musical Theatre program.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when we write musicals now, we keep writing in that same style, as though that's the musical theatre genre... We have to figure out how to tell stories with the music that we listen to now, or we'll lose our audience.

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

If it wasn't for musical theatre I wouldn't have met my wife, McFly wouldn't exist, none of it would have happened.

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes.

Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.

It's been in my musical DNA since I was a little kid. I think musical theatre has really influenced everything I've done.

I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.

I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.

My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!

I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.

I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often.

I started off doing stuff in theatre in Letterkenny from quite a young age. It was just a hobby, something I enjoyed. Some kids like tennis or guitar. I just enjoyed musical theatre so my parents got me into classes.

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.

I've always loved musical theatre. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.

I have a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre.

I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

I didn't go to university. I studied theatre in high school and worked with Canberra Youth Theatre and The Street Theatre and other theatre organisations in Canberra, and that's how I got my training.

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

Obviously musical theatre is not my thing, but dramatic theatre is much more up my alley.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

Musical theatre is, for sure, my first love.

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.

If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.