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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
I got to see Linda's [Hart] live when it first came on Broadway. I just loved her. I've always been a fan of hers.
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'
Broadway is the same as Hollywood. Every few years we say we reached the mountaintop, then we take two steps back.
When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.
Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.
I'm a broadway girl, so anytime someone would sing my entrance music, that was probably my absolute favorite thing.
I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.
I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!
In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.
I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
I've taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.
It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.
The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.
I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.
I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.
I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
'Turn Me Loose' was Off-Broadway, and now we are making a concerted effort to figure out how to get it to on Broadway.
I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; it's just a part of me.
Nothing's hipper than leaving the set of 'Girls' in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.
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.
I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.
My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing.
You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
On Broadway, you are working with some incredible people, and they have great reasons for doing things the way they do.
One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.
What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun.
Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.
Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe.
As soon as I saw 'Chinglish' on Broadway, I began to envision this smart and insightful cross-cultural comedy as a film.
When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.
I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest of my life.
You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.
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.
The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.
Id like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change peoples lives.