Broadway Musical Quotes

• I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Movie, Musical, Auditions

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• I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

  Ed McBain

  Winning, Awards, Musical

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  To love another person is to see the face of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Wedding, Happy Valentines Day

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Miserables”, Xist Publishing

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• I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Friendship, People, Wicked

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• We can't all come and go by bubble!

  Stephen Schwartz

  Wicked, Comes And Goes, Bubbles

  "Fictional character: Elphaba Thropp". Broadway musical "Wicked", May 28, 2003.

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• How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

  Shepherd Mead

  Book, Trying, Titles

  Title of book (1952)

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• So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

  Stephen Schwartz

  Heart, Stories, Handprints

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• Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

  Julia Barr

  Musical, Roles, Broadway

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• 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.

  Frank Oz

  Kids, Gay, Broadway

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• Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Thrill, Broadway, Remember

  Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1986.

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• Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

  Paul Rudnick

  Children, Taken, Helping Others

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• The producers and I first talked about the Big Fish musical, right before we did the first test screening of the movie. I said, "I think there's a Broadway musical here." And really, from that day, we started figuring out how we would do it.

  John August

  Thinking, Musical, Big Fish

  Source: collider.com

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• Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Gay, Men, Broadway

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Dream, Thinking, Voice

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• Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Rocks, Creating

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

  Adam Gopnik

  Book, Charlie Hebdo, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

  David Bowie

  Men, Elephants, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Musical, Rasputin, Broadway

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Song, New York, Play

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where it all started. Go back and look at history. Look at why the shows you are loving today happened and the artists you are listening to happened. And do your homework on history. Whether it's musical movies, musical plays, Broadway musical recordings - do your homework! And then, that way you will have an understanding of why, now, certain movies, certain plays, certain musicals are making some sort of sense.

  Lorna Luft

  Artist, Play, Careers

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Giving, Musical

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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• 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.

  Lara Pulver

  Musical, Would Be, Broadway

  "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Writing, Broadway, Berlin

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• I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

  Norm MacDonald

  Gay, Broadway, Knows

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Kings, Swings

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