Broadway Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Burlesque thrived during the Great Depression, and by extension, so, too, did Gypsy [Rose Lee]. Men could no longer afford to pay $5.50 to see a show on Broadway, but they could scrape together $1.00 for a matinee at a burlesque house.

  Karen Abbott

  Men, Rose, House

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

  Heather Headley

  Atmosphere, Different, Roles

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Damn Yankees' together and then we did 'Xanadu.' Jane did all the workshops of 'Xanadu' before it moved to Broadway. She's hysterical and our voices blended. We had a similar sensibility.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Reading, Years, Voice

  "Renaissance man". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

  Gail Sheehy

  Class, Office, United States

  "When Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani Did Battle for a Senate Seat" by Gail Sheehy, www.vanityfair.com. June 2000.

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• My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

  Julia Stiles

  Grandmother, Childhood, Lucky

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.

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• My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done 'Hair' in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.

  Keith Carradine

  New York, Successful, Hair

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I was doing a Broadway play, and I was really new to this business. The Broadway play was my first job, literally. The play next door was a musical called Falsettos. The director got hired to direct this Michael J. Fox movie and was looking for a kid who could play brash and salty and mean [in Life With Mikey].

  David Krumholtz

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Believe, People, Community

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• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  Victor Garber

  People, Trying, World

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

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• All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Dream, School, Years

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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, Remember, Old Fashioned

  Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1986.

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• I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.

  Richard Madden

  New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Hair, Saws, Firsts

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• Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Film And Television, Theater, Television

  "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

  Janel Parrish

  Piano, Six, Jazz

  "Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish Worship at the Alter of the Bratz!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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• Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

  Jeremy Piven

  Opportunity, People, Holy Grail

  "If there's one thing I'm prepared for, it's rejection". Interview with Andrew Gumbel, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2009.

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• I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.

  Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

  Wicked, Roles, Excited

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in the industry if you do film and TV because the audience is larger, and because the work can be seen for a longer period of time. I did solid work in a series of regional and Off-Broadway shows, but the work I did on TV or film will have a longer life with a larger audience (and with services like Netflix). Ultimately, there's something intimate about TV, because the storytelling and the actors come home with the viewer. It can be powerful because of that.

  Steven C. Harper

  Wise, Powerful, Home

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.

  Maggie Smith

  Jobs, Stars, Thinking

  "Maggie Smith On The Pressures Of Acting: 'You Want So Much To Get It Right'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 23, 2016.

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• I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

  Hugh Panaro

  Art, Thinking, Evolve

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The Last Five Years. It's amazing how things come full-circle and how the community (once you hang around it long enough) grows smaller and smaller as it grows. Sharing the stage with these people is more than a dream come true it's so special. They're so warm and giving and offer the best advice. Sherie is very nice and maternal and nurturing.

  Tituss Burgess

  Dream, New York, Nice

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Real, Ideas

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• 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.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Thinking, Musical, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

  John Cariani

  Schedules, Stuff, Tough

  "It's ALMOST, MAINE for John Cariani!!!". Interview with TJ Fitzgerald, www.broadwayworld.com. January 4, 2006.

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