I never imagined that I would have a successful solo career, let alone one in musical theater.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it.

I started doing theater, musical theater, because of my sister. She's a singer; she's an actress, too.

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

I never wanted to be a wrestler, I wanted to get into musical theater. I always wanted to be on Broadway.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

I love theater. That's what I did in Mexico City. I did a lot of musical theater, and it's where my heart is.

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

If I'd had more courage, I would've pursued a less commercial path. Maybe I would've gone into musical theater.

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

My love of musical theater was certainly not typical. I mean, it was considered to be very, very abnormal, in fact!

When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

I trained at a conservatory as a mezzo-soprano and was a musical theater major in college so I had a theater background.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

I really wished I had done the backpacking-through-Europe thing when I was younger, but I was busy doing musical theater.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

'Cabaret' was one of the first pieces of musical theater I saw that showed the possibilities of what musical theater can do.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

I've done music as a hobby, either in musical theater or just jamming with friends, pretty much for as long as I can remember.

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.

Musical theater has sort of always been there for me, but I haven't always treated it with the same reverence as it's treated me.

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

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.

YouTube came out when I was a sophomore in college, and I feel like I was one of the first people to put musical theater stuff online.

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.

I've got quite a low voice, so it's not your typical musical theater voice, but I do love musicals; they're a very different experience.

I avoided the party scene at the University of Miami. I came in to study musical theater, and I felt so behind. I literally knew nothing.

One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

When I got to high school, I was going to do sports, but I got kicked off the volleyball team because I kept missing it for musical theater.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

I didn't necessarily set out to be in musical theater, but that's where my path has taken me, and I've been loving and enjoying it ever since.

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

I knew in my heart I wanted to do musical theater professionally. I just didn't know how to go about it or how to communicate that to my parents.

AMDA was intense. I realized when I got there that I had to play a little bit of catchup. A lot of these kids knew so much about musical theater.

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

I always wanted to do musical theater. That was where I saw my life going since I was a musical theater major in college before I went to Pentatonix.

I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.

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.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

Naivete is the real reason I applied to Juilliard. I wanted to study drama and not musical theater because I have a hard time dancing. I only applied there.

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