Musical Theater Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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 wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

  David Duchovny

  Musical, Succeed, Theater

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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 started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

  Loni Anderson

  Musical, Acting, Exotic

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• I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas, but I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

  Dianna Agron

  School, Yearbook, Hair

  "HitFix Interview the Cast of 'Glee'". Interview with Daniel Fienbeg, api.hitfix.com. May 19, 2009.

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• I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Musical, Lucky

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

  Lana Parrilla

  Christmas, White, Musical

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

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• It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater… it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.

  Kurt Weill

  Song, Musical, Use

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• I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Art, School, College

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• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  Sara Paxton

  Grease, Musical, Stories

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• We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

  Neil Tennant

  Musical, Would Be, Theater

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

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• We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

  Carly Simon

  Musical, Jazz, Bigs

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• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  Samantha Barks

  Passion, Musical, Theater

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• I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

  Drew Lachey

  School, Wife, Musical

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• If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Musical, Pieces, Serious

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• As an actor, you generally don’t get to choose what projects you are part of, so I’ve been very fortunate that The Book of Mormon was something I got to be part of. I don’t want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.

  Andrew Rannells

  Book, Musical, Actors

  "Andrew Rannells' Crew Love". Interview with Li Zhou, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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• I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

  Bridget Regan

  Musical, Actors, Remember

  "Bridget Regan Talks BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Joining the Show, and Her Favorite Moments to Shoot". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But the two have grown apart so that popular music is based more than ever on a rhythmic grid that is irrelevant in musical theater. In popular music, words matter less and less. Especially now that it's so international, the fewer words the better. While theater music becomes more and more confined to a few blocks in midtown.

  Stephin Merritt

  Block, Musical, Music Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Ive always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

  Daniela Bobadilla

  Girl, School, Catholic

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• I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

  Tavis Smiley

  Musical, Actresses, Theater

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

  Jerry Herman

  Musical, Trying, Generations

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• The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.

  Anton Yelchin

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  "Anton Yelchin Talks BURYING THE EX, Working with Joe Dante, and the Tone of the Film; Plus His Thoughts on Getting a New Director for STAR TREK 3". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. December 12, 2013.

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• I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

  Amanda Schull

  Growing Up, Secret, Musical

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