Musical Theater Quotes - Page 2

• When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.

  Tamara Tunie

  New York, Doors, Years

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

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• From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.

  Alexander Koch

  Crazy, Musical, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

  Eli Roth

  Song, Musical, Doe

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Boston, Musical, Theatre

  "Comic-Con: AMERICAN DAD’s Rachael MacFarlane Talks Up the New Season; Reveals Her Musical Aspirations". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Hip Hop, Musical, Hips

  "Meet Tatiana Maslany of TV's Newest Thriller, 'Orphan Black'". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 29, 2013.

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• At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater.

  Seth MacFarlane

  College, Boston, Musical

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.

  Anna Kendrick

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

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• It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

  Luke Evans

  Musical, Looks, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

  Jennifer Garner

  Dancer, Ballet, Musical

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• I'm not saying every musical theater actor can do film or television, but a lot of them can. A lot of them are brilliant actors who absolutely don't need to sing to prove their ability and don't get the opportunity.

  Luke Evans

  Opportunity, Musical, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  Zac Efron

  Artist, Singing, Musical

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

  Zac Efron

  Song, Kids, Writing

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• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  Zac Efron

  School, People, Musical

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• I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

  David Duchovny

  Musical, Succeed, Theater

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• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  A. J. McLean

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Musical, Albums, Theater

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• I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

  Cass McCombs

  Song, Long, Musical

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

  Sarah Silverman

  New York, Cities, Musical

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.

  Nick Blaemire

  People, Challenges, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

  Harold Prince

  Moving, Responsibility, Successful

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• I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

  Samantha Barks

  Careers, Musical, Doe

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• I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

  Laura Benanti

  Art, Thinking, Apples

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• What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

  Harold Prince

  Missing, Musical, New Work

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• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  Harold Prince

  Musical, Way, Process

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• I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs that sound that way - the emphasis being on the storytelling, but the arrangements and the orchestrations can be really varied - I found that to be, actually, a really joyful discovery.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Writing, Discovery

  Source: www.elle.com

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