Broadway Shows Quotes

• I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

  Babyface

  Say Anything, Broadway, Shows

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• I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

  Bea Arthur

  Cutting, Teeth, Broadway

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• The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

  Bette Davis

  Broadway, Reason

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• The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Country, Broadway, Used

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

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, People, Tickets

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• If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

  Marian Burros

  Kitchen, Dining, Dresses

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

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Hair, Broadway, Saws

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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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• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  Maggie Grace

  Broadway, Shows, Free Time

  "Maggie Grace on Her Broadway Debut in 'Picnic'". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. JAnuary 18, 2013.

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• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  Lance Bass

  Broadway, Want, Toys

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• I did a couple of little Off-Broadway things, but my first Broadway show was A History Of The American Film, written by Chris Durang. Swoosie Kurtz was one of the stars. It was a wonderful show. It closed in 40 performances. I think it was kind of ahead of its time.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

  Dave Brubeck

  Country, Fusion, Broadway

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• Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

  Olesya Rulin

  Broadway, London, Saws

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• I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

  Bryan Batt

  Titles, Broadway, Cups

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• I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out into the - allow it to reach the target audience, who can't necessarily spend $120 to come see it.

  Katherine Shindle

  Hate, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I have this huge, huge fan base of people who've never seen a Broadway show, but I think it's a great introduction to what Broadway is because my shows are not that. I think that if you're getting people to go to theater then somebody should be celebrating that.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, People, Fans

  "Tyler Perry, Taking Madea from Stage to Page". "Talk of the Nation" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 12, 2006.

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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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• 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 remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.

  Adam Jacobs

  Fuel, Broadway, Saws

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."

  Robin Williams

  Men, Night, Als

  Source: www.rd.com

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• The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

  Martin McDonagh

  People, Broadway, Facts

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• If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Character, Thinking, Age

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• Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

  John Lahr

  Awards, Talking, Play

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

  John Lahr

  Sports, New York, Team

  "Betting the Tonys". www.newyorker.com.

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