Musical Theatre Quotes

• Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

  David Naughton

  Musical, Theatre, Familiar

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• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  Mandy Moore

  Real, Ambition, Musical

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• I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.

  Wesley Snipes

  College, Florida, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

  Carey Mulligan

  Play, Forever, Musical

  "Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan, Matthew Beard: interview". Interview With Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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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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• I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.

  Christian Campbell

  Song, Musical, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I wish and pray there are a lot of young people with technology and way of thinking that can create a brand new kind of musical theatre.

  Claude-Michel Schonberg

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Musical, Theatre

  "InDepth InterView Exclusive: Patti LuPone Talks FAR AWAY PLACES, 54 Below, PARKER, Broadway, Hollywood & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body.

  Christine Lakin

  Exercise, College, Gym Rats

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• When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

  Jason Mraz

  Strong, Growing Up, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you.

  Laura Benanti

  Dog, Home, Heart

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.

  Laura Benanti

  Children, Musical, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, Musical, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

  John Gallagher, Jr.

  Nerd, Musical, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwaybullet.com

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• I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

  Syesha Mercado

  Dream, Islands, Musical

  "Swan Song for Syesha". Interview with Rebecca Lynne Tan, May 17, 200.

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• My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dad, Mean, Musical

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.102, Del Rey

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• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  Mandy Moore

  Florida, Musical, Singing

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• My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Musical, Theatre, Classic Movie

  "Jake Gyllenhaal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Running, Play, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

  Toks Olagundoye

  School, College, Musical

  "Toks Olagundoye of 'The Neighbors': 23 Things You Don't Know". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

  Sheridan Smith

  Drama, Grateful, Bored

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• I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

  Samantha Barks

  Church Choir, Play, Rocks

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• Musical theatre is my first love.

  Laura Benanti

  First Love, Musical, Theatre

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