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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• I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

  Anna Camp

  Art, Jobs, New York

  "Anna Camp Pushes Her Boundaries in 'Pitch Perfect' and 'The Mindy Project'". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.backstage.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

  Mario Cantone

  Kings, Two, Musical

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• The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

  Laurie Anderson

  Hate, Broadway, Stuff

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• I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, Perfect, Ears

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• No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town.

  Margo Jefferson

  Sweet, Jobs, Real

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• I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

  Frank Oz

  Kids, Gay, World

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• I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals

  Ethel Merman

  Stars, Broadway, Vaudeville

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the type of show I am giving. I could pull references from Broadway musicals, Rock Steady Crew, a Jamaican dancehall or gentlemen's club, etc. all within one show. It truly is a playground with no restrictions for me.

  Mya

  Summer, Vanity, Rocks

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• If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.

  Colin Meloy

  Writing, Wine, Iron

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

  Muhammad Ali

  Thinking, Singing, Musical

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

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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'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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• 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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