Top 560 Musicals Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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.
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.
I have not forgotten about my dreams to become a singer. If given the chance, I want to take part in a drama OST making and also try out for musicals.
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.
The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.
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.
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form.
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
When you're on tour with the band, it's a different mentality. You don't sightsee because you're making sure you can do the show. But in musicals, I don't have to sing or play: I just have to use my brain, and the rest of the time, I'm free.
'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'
Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.
Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.
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 was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.
I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.
I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.
I am all about the arts and whenever I go to New York, London or Sydney I check out the latest plays, musicals and concerts. It is an obsession for me!
What I've always liked as an actor is to do a lot of different kinds of things. I've done musicals, stage, TV and lots of different styles of work.
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.
I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.
I like musicals that look more like plays.
One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.
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.
My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn't like the typical alpha male. I wasn't afraid to sing, you know? I wasn't afraid to be in musicals.
Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.
I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.
The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.
We're finding that the casting of 'A Few Good Men' is different from the musicals because the kind of actors that you need to do it are movie actors, basically.
I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a completely different fashion.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, 'Let's have a good time' shows.
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.
I was in musicals and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was nothing I ever really pursued. So this was pretty out of the blue.
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.
We should be so grateful for musicals, and the amount of work that goes into these shows is easily comparable to things I've been in at the National and the RSC. Why do we think it is less important?.
I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.
I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.
I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.
I've always loved singing, and wanted to do musicals. Watching them as a child was what convinced me that I wanted to be a professional.
Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music
Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.
We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.
I did musicals in high school, certainly. And then I just kept wanting to do them. I felt at home in the theater, in that way that, you know, you're supposed to if that's the kind of person you are.
