Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

My only claim to music is a good sense of rhythm, and I have been in musicals and done some singing.

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

I always thought I'd be good at musicals, and it turns out I make up for my lack of skill with enthusiasm.

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me and my personal life.

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the mirror.

Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

I kind of grew up on musicals, specifically, for whatever reason. They're something that really attracted me as a child.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.

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.

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient.

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven't even seen the Monty Python musical, and I'm a huge Monty Python fan.

'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.

The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all the groundwork for me.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.

A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.

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.

Share This Page